OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221688401

BILL RICHARD ELECTRIC INC.

HUNTINGTON, NY— 2024-07-29T00:00:00

Event: Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Brain, Brain Bleed, Commercial Building, Concrete Floor, Conduit, Construction, Door, Electrical Work, Electrician, Extension Ladder, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fracture, Head, Hemorrhage, Installing, Knocked from, Knocked off, Lack of Work Procedures, Ladder, Skull, Training, Traumatic Brain Injury, Work Surface
NAICS: 238210
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #347651234
Employer profile: BILL RICHARD ELECTRIC INC.
Summary number: 221688401
Report ID: 0214700
Project type: A
Construction end-use: H

Event description

Employee dies of head trauma when knocked off ladder by door

Investigation abstract

At 12:01 p.m. on July 29, 2024, an employee working as an electrician for an electrical contractor was installing electrical conduit on a ceiling. The employee was installing the conduit to provide service from an electrical panel located in the garage. The employee was working approximately 17 feet above the ground utilizing a 28-foot fiberglass extension ladder. The ladder was struck when a coworker opened the garage door causing the employee to fall to the concrete floor. The employee died from skull fractures and a brain hemorrhage.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 70 M

Event type
5

Occupation code
575

Fall distance
17

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