OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14295810
PATENT SCAFFOLDING
PASADENA, MD·
Event description
Employee's skull fractured by falling scaffold plank
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was halfway up a 70 ft high tubular welded frame scaffold, helping a hat. coworker construct a floor of scaffold planks. The tower of approximately 6 ft 6 in. by 7 ft by 5 ft tall tubular welded frames was erected around a pipe that was to have the outside insulation removed. An approximately 2 in. by 12 in. by 8 ft long scaffold board fell 35 ft from the top of the scaffold, striking Emplo yee #1 on the head. He sustained a fractured skull and a laceration, for which h e was hospitalized. The board that fell had been left at the top of the scaffold while the tubular welded frame was being erected. Employee #1 was trained and e xperienced in the proper procedures for scaffold erection. He was wearing a hard
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 52 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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