OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221560097

GULFCO CONSTRUCTION, INC.

INDIAN ROCKS BEACH, FL— 2023-05-02T00:00:00

Event: Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Carpenter, Concrete Floor, Construction, Elevator, Elevator Shaft, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Fracture, Guardrail, Head, Midrail, Residential Construction, Skull
NAICS: 238130
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #346673791
Employer profile: GULFCO CONSTRUCTION, INC.
Summary number: 221560097
Report ID: 0420600
Project type: A
Construction end-use: A

Event description

Employee dies from head trauma from fall down elevator shaft

Investigation abstract

At 12:30 p.m. on May 2, 2023, an employee working as a carpenter on a residential construction project was walking around the entrance to an elevator shaft to go to lunch. The employee fell to the bottom of the elevator shaft. There was only one rail blocking the elevator shaft as fall protection. It is unknown if the employee fell over or under the rail. The employee fractured his skull from impact with the concrete floor below and was killed. No other objects were found at the bottom of the elevator shaft that the employee could have fallen onto.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 48 M

Event type
5

Occupation code
567

Fall distance
11

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