OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14255665
DISMANTLING,CONSTRUCTION,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT,LOST BALANCE,SCAFFOLD
Event description
Employee struck by falling scaffold board
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and coworkers were disassembling welded-frame tubular scaffolds. A c oworker was handing a scaffold board to Employee #1 when he lost his balance and the board dropped and hit Employee #1 on the head. Employee #1 was hospitalized .
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 20 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 553
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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