Other fall to lower level 26 to 30 feet · Cuts, lacerations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Eshbro Construction LLC, 1 Hog Island Rd., PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA 19153
on — Cuts, lacerations, affecting the forehead.
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Final narrative
While installing new steel decking on an interior mezzanine, an employee fell 29 feet, suffering a forehead laceration. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was straddling a beam approximately 19 feet above the ground when he lost his balance while preparing to connect a beam being hoisted into place by a crane. He fell to the ground, striking dirt and the first course of cement block around the building's foundation. He fractured his nose and arm and was hospitalized overnight.
An employee was laying down bridging (angle iron that is welded onto open web joists). He was moving backward toward the edge of a joist when his foot slipped. He lost balance and fell backward away from the structure and landed on the ground about 30 feet below. The employee sustained a broken right leg. The employee was wearing a harness but it was not connected at the time of the fall.
On June 16, 2023, an employee was checking the I-beams on a bridge. He unhooked his harness to move across the section of the second beam. While hooking his harness on the third beam, his foot hit the cable that was connected to the beam and fell approximately 25 to 30 feet to the muddy clay floor below. The employee sustained a left hip and femur fracture.
An employee was using a 60-foot ladder to access the fourth floor of a building in order to paint the balcony. The employee was holding onto the handrail while painting it when the handrail brackets broke, causing him to fall approximately 30 feet to the ground and land on top of air conditioning units. The employee suffered severe lacerations on the face and fractures to the cheekbones and eye bones. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee entered a portable structure that was being rigged up to a crane. The crane began lifting the portable structure with the employee inside when the structure fell 15-30 feet to the ground. The employee sustained a left leg fracture, a dislocated right ankle, and back injury.
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