OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14252829
BRYANT ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC.
DURHAM, NC·
Event description
CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYEE INJURED IN FALL FROM SCAFFOLD LADDER
Investigation abstract
EMPLOYEE #1 LEFT HIS LEVELING DEVICE ON TOP OF A 15 FOOT SCAFFOLD. HE WAS TOLD T D BY LIFE SUPPORT EQUIPMENT. O RETURN TO THE CONSTRUCTION AREA TO GET SOME NAILS AND THEN RETURN TO THE JOB T RAILER. AFTER HE GOT THE NAILS HE DECIDED TO RETRIEVE HIS LEVEL FROM THE TOP OF THE SCAFFOLD. HE HAD TO WALK THROUGH RAIN AND MUD TO GET TO THE AREA. ACCORDING TO WITNESSES EMPLOYEE #1 WAS OBSERVED CLIMBING DOWN THE SCAFFOLD LADDER, THEN SW INGING BY ONE ARM. HE WAS THEN OBSERVED LYING FACE DOWN ON THE CONCRETE FLOOR. E MPLOYEE #1 APPARENTLY SLIPPED ON THE SCAFFOLD LADDER BECAUSE HIS SHOES WERE WET OR MUDDY. HE LANDED FACE DOWN ON HIS HEAD. HE SUFFERED A SKULL FRACTURE AND CONC USSION. EMPLOYEE #1 HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED AS BEING BRAIN DEAD. HE IS BEING SUSTAINE
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 64 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 25
- Occupation code
- 575
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 17
- Task assigned
- 1
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