OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14223531
AMERICAN INDUSTRIES INC
TERRE HAUTE, IN·
Event description
Employee injured in fall from overturning scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was standing on a 29 ft high by 6 ft long by 4 ft 6 in. wide platfor uries. Outriggers had not been attached to the scaffold. Consequently, the scaff old, at 29 ft high, far exceeded the 4:1 ratio of height to its minimum base dim ension and the 2:1 weight ratio that would have allowed the employee to ride saf ely on the moving scaffold. m constructing a 34 ft 6 in. high grid ceiling when he decided to move the mobil e scaffold. He called to his foreman for assistance, and receiving no response, Employee #1 attempted to pull the scaffold by tying wires to the roof bar joists , unaware that his foreman had locked all the casters. The employee's first pull upset the scaffold. Realizing that the scaffold was overturning, the employee u nsuccessfully attempted to grasp a roof bar joist and did succeed in momentarily delaying his fall so that he landed on the scaffold frame and not on the concre te floor. Employee #1 was hospitalized with severe chest, abdomen, and liver inj
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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