OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14198600
ALLEN TYLER & SON INC
SALISBURY, MD·
Event description
FIVE EMPLOYEES INJURED IN FALL FROM SCAFFOLD PLATFORM
Investigation abstract
Employees #1 through #5 were working on the platform of a Morgan Tower scaffold, located 19 feet, 4 inches above the ground. A cotter pin was missing from the s heave pin, which molds the 4-inch sheave in the sheave assembly. Two employees r aised the scaffold by turning the winch lifting leaver, causing the sheave pin t o come out. The winch cable was then free with nothing to support the carriage a nd platform. The scaffold platform fell and all 5 employees fell to the ground. Employees #1 through #5 were taken to the hospital, suffering from multiple inju ries.
Victims (5)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 29 Male
- Nature of injury
- Other (21)
- Part of body
- MULTIPLE (19)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- HOISTING APPARATUS (24)
- Occupation
- Brickmasons and stonemasons (563)
- Human factor
- SAFETY DEVICES REMOVED/INOPER. (9)
- Environmental factor
- OTHER (18)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
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#2 Hospitalized Age 23 Male
- Nature of injury
- Other (21)
- Part of body
- MULTIPLE (19)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- HOISTING APPARATUS (24)
- Occupation
- Construction trades, n.e.c. (599)
- Human factor
- SAFETY DEVICES REMOVED/INOPER. (9)
- Environmental factor
- OTHER (18)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
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#3 Hospitalized Age 31 Male
- Nature of injury
- Other (21)
- Part of body
- MULTIPLE (19)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- HOISTING APPARATUS (24)
- Occupation
- Brickmasons and stonemasons (563)
- Human factor
- SAFETY DEVICES REMOVED/INOPER. (9)
- Environmental factor
- OTHER (18)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
-
#4 Hospitalized Age 34 Male
- Nature of injury
- Other (21)
- Part of body
- MULTIPLE (19)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- HOISTING APPARATUS (24)
- Occupation
- Brickmasons and stonemasons (563)
- Human factor
- SAFETY DEVICES REMOVED/INOPER. (9)
- Environmental factor
- OTHER (18)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
-
#5 Hospitalized Age 56 Male
- Nature of injury
- Other (21)
- Part of body
- MULTIPLE (19)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- HOISTING APPARATUS (24)
- Occupation
- Construction trades, n.e.c. (599)
- Human factor
- SAFETY DEVICES REMOVED/INOPER. (9)
- Environmental factor
- OTHER (18)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.