OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14253348
MCDEVITT & STREET COMPANY
RALEIGH, NC·
Event description
Employee struck by falling caster
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was operating a tugger in the basement of a building. When a mobile scaffold on the fourth floor was pushed to a guardrail at an elevator shaft open ing, a caster came off the scaffold, went over the edge, and fell through the sh aft to the basement. It struck Employee #1 on the arm and leg.
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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