Hispanic Worker Dies After Fall From Step Ladder While Cleaning Windows– North Carolina

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  On January 22, 2009, a 33-year-old Hispanic worker was injured after a fall from an 8-foot step ladder. A bucket partially filled with a cleaning solution was tied with a rag to the top of the ladder. The victim was cleaning windows when he fell onto a tiled floor and hit his head. At approximately 1:08 p.m., a tile foreman on the site called 911 and stayed with the conscious victim. The victim became unresponsive and at 1:14 p.m., Emergency Medical Services (EMS) arrived on the scene. When emergency medical personnel arrived, the victim was unconscious and having seizures. EMS transported the victim to a local hospital. The following morning the worker died from his injuries.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Engineering Occupational Health Race Factors Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Control-technology Engineering-controls Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 4 Racial-factors Surveillance Training Traumatic-injuries Work-operations Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Construction ; Falls ; Hispanic ; Falls - Construction - Commercial
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE200901
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  15 pages
• Contributor:
  Allen, Anna ; Romano, Nancy T.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20037255
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2010-114234
• Citation:
  Morgantown, : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2010
• Performing Organization:
  West Virginia University
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  56 - Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  2005/07/01
• End Date:
  2020/06/30
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:cf63dbdad21a010209f7da4b1a934ceb9e4a261334265925cab74172e1604a7f859211b53cdb30ad3476574bfdb84956d8388b5f741e9fe0f66164c545e08a35
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167262/cdc_167262_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 458.04 KB ]