OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14295745
UNITED MASONRY, INCORPATION
GREENBELT, MD·
Event description
Two employees injured when scaffold falls
Investigation abstract
Employees #1 and #2 and four coworkers were 8 ft above the ground on a Morgen sc affold, laying a concrete block wall, when storm clouds were observed in the dis tance. They were finishing up work and had started to descend from the scaffold when a high gust of wind appeared to lift the northern end of the scaffold up an d away from the building wall. The scaffold fell to the ground, also bringing do wn a 70 ft long attached scaffold. Employees #1 and #2 fell to the ground with t he scaffold and sustained injuries that required hospitalization. The four cowor kers climbed onto the wall to avoid falling with the scaffold.
Victims (2)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 31 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 24
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 32
- Occupation code
- 563
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 17
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Hospitalized Age 35 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 18
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 32
- Occupation code
- 563
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 17
- Task assigned
- 1
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