OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14291355
STRUCK BY,SCAFFOLD,WALL,UNSECURED,WORK RULES,OVERLOADED,CONCRETE BLOCK,OVERTURN,CONSTRUCTION,FALLING OBJECT
Event description
Employee on ground struck by falling wall blocks
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was working from an 8 ft wooden stepladder located at ground level i n a 13 ft wide corridor between two apartment buildings under construction. A ma sonry scaffold had been set up across the corridor on the second floor level. Th e scaffold legs were resting on 5/8 in. particleboard and were not equipped with baseplates or other adequate foundations. As the scaffold was loaded with worke rs and their materials its legs punched through the flooring. The scaffold overt urned, displacing a green block wall. Employee #1 was struck by a falling block and suffered multiple injuries.
Victims (3)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 17
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 2
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#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
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#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
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