Other fall to lower level 6 to 30 feet · Fractures and soft tissue injuries
Final narrative
On June 13, 2025, an employee was installing perimeter angle on top of a steel beam. He welded a short piece in place and started installing the next longer piece. He butted the two pieces together, put a weld at the joint and started to move down the angle. As he was moving down the angle, he lost his footing, grabbed the angle, and it broke loose. He then fell backward off the beam and landed on a concrete slab 14 feet below. The employee sustained fractures to his upper right arm and a dislocated right elbow.
Hospitalized Multiple arm locations Trusses, girders, beams structurally attached
An employee was operating a battery-powered broom to clean demolition debris off the top of the outermost bridge girder. The girder was approximately 11 feet above the demolition scaffold below. The employee fell approximately 8 feet to wind bracing below. The employee was hospitalized with a pelvis/tailbone fracture. Fall protection was in place at the time.
An employee was standing on the surface of a steel beam about two feet wide. He slipped and fell backward, landing on the concrete ground about 20 feet below. The employee sustained a broken pelvis.
An employee was cleaning out an inlet pipe in a stormwater structure. The employee stepped back, fell into the pipe, and landed on concrete 13 feet below, at the bottom of the structure. He suffered a broken back.
An employee was working on a platform, raised 6 to 8 feet in the air, to get something off a rack. The employee fell from the platform to the ground and sustained a head injury and injury to multiple body parts.
An employee was preparing to unjam an auger shaft while standing on a forklift-elevated, job-made platform. The employee's wrench slipped off the equipment, causing them to lose their balance and fall. The employee landed on the ground 14 feet below and suffered fractures to the orbital bone, left elbow, and lower back.