OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14254130
WEISS BROTHERS CONSTRUCTION CO. INC.
CHARLOTTE, NC·
Event description
Employee injured in fall when scaffold board breaks
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 had been assigned to torque and inspect the connecting bolts on a br idge cap. A coworker had also been assigned to help him with the torque wrench. Both employees were standing on an unsound scaffold board, which it broke. The c oworker grabbed a bridge brace, arresting his fall, but Employee #1 fell 16 ft t o a concrete slope, landing feet first. He sustained fractured vertebrae, for wh ich he was hospitalized. Neither employee was wearing a safety belt with lanyard .
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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