OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #1002377
PROCESS MECHANICAL, INC.
CEDAR RAPIDS, IA·
Event description
Employee injured after falling from scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and a coworker had installed a scaffold on the outside of a tank, we lded carpenter brackets to the tank, and installed a wire rope for the top guard rail, using wire rope clips for fasteners. They fastened one end of the guardrai l and proceeded to fasten the other, tightening the wire rope clip nut with thei r fingers only. Upon returning from lunch, the two employees forgot to tighten t he wire rope clip nut with a wrench and proceeded to weld on the scaffold. When Employee #1 leaned on the wire rope, it slipped out of the wire clip. He fell 10 feet 6 1/2 inches to the floor and was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 2
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