OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14236855
LUCKY CONCRETE INC
SPARKS, NV·
Event description
Two employees injured in fall from collapsing scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employees #1 and #2 were told by their foreman to pick up some forming component ench accidentally hit the brace, displacing it enough that the scaffold could no t support the additional weight of the employees. s, load them into a wheelbarrow, and bring them downstairs. The employees took a shortcut past a perimeter barricade and onto a form scaffold, on which was writ ten "do not stand." They then planned to throw the components over the edge of t he scaffold to the ground. When both employees stepped onto the scaffold it coll apsed, causing them to fall to the ground. Employees #1 and #2 were hospitalized . They stated that they did not know why the scaffold collapsed. Subsequent inve stigation showed that a trench had been dug next to a brace that supported the s caffold on the ground. It is speculated that the backhoe that was digging the tr
Victims (5)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 37 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Hospitalized Age 19 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
-
#982 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
-
#983 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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