Maintenance Worker Dies After Falling 3 Feet Into A Construction Excavation

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• Corporate Authors:
  New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE) ; New Jersey. Department of Health and Senior Services. Occupational Health Service
• Description:
  On August 29, 1992, a 51-year-old maintenance worker was fatally injured after falling into a construction excavation. The incident occurred at a correctional facility when the victim approached a trench that had been dug for the foundation of a new building. As he was apparently approaching the excavation, he fell into the three-foot-deep trench and struck his head on a cinder block wall built in the excavation. The victim died of complications related to his injuries nine days after the incident. NJDOH FACE investigators concluded that, in order to prevent similar incidents in the future, the following safety guidelines should be followed: 1. Employers must instruct employees to stay clear of construction areas. 2. Employers and contractors should ensure that all gates and entrances within the construction areas are sealed, and alternate gates or entrances are provided until the work is complete. 3. Contractors should provide clearly defined barriers and/or warning lines to mark all the boundaries of construction areas.
• Content Notes:
  Formerly 92NJ030
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Construction Materials Occupational Health Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-potential Accident-prevention Construction Construction-equipment Construction-industry Construction-materials Construction-workers Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 2 Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-practices Traumatic-injuries Warning-signs Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Construction ; Falls ; Falls - Construction - Commercial
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE92NJ038
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  New Jersey ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  3 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026535
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2013-104911
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE 92NJ038, 1992 Nov ; :1-3
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1993
• Performing Organization:
  New Jersey Department of Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1991/09/30
• End Date:
  2005/08/31
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:feb3145d51de12cd3f1fdaa503f70ca3a5f4356a4cc16a65eb55bc50c14e7987c2e88e348268c2d33f37d05af6fe21ee7ea3d466b3690e42d6f3c14ef72031f7
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170111/cdc_170111_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 71.11 KB ]