OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14224364
ERECTION PROCESS,SHOULDER,DISLOCATED,FALL,SCAFFOLD,TUBULAR SCAFFOLD
Event description
Employee injured from 25 ft 6 in. fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was helping other employees erect the fifth level of a tubular-welde d scaffold frame to be used by the masons. Employee #1 was instructed to move do wn to the fourth level of the scaffold by his superintendent. Employee #1 lay do wn on the scaffold deck next to three 10-in boards. The boards had been laid bac k to allow the crane to set a pallet of blocks on the level. Employee #1 placed his hands on the boards and swung himself down to the fourth level. The employee became unbalanced when he landed, flipped over, hit the mortar pan on the third level, flipped over again and landed on the ground. Employee #1 fell approximat ely 25 ft 6 in.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 24 M
- Nature of injury
- 9
- Part of body
- 21
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 563
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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