OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14296230

GUARDRAIL,WORK RULES,STRUCK AGAINST,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,LOST BALANCE,UNGUARDED,SCAFFOLD

1985-12-30T00:00:00

Event: GUARDRAIL,WORK RULES,STRUCK AGAINST,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,LOST BALANCE,UNGUARDED,SCAFFOLD
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 14296230
Report ID: 352440

Event description

Employee injured in fall from scaffold

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 and a foreman had gone out onto the fourth level of a five-level tub tside of the scaffold. When he went to retrieve it, he lost his footing and fell about 20 ft to the frozen earth, striking parts of the framing on the way down. Employee #1 was hospitalized. The second scaffold level was even with the secon d building floor, and the fourth scaffold level with the third building floor. A ccess from the second and third floors was by way of an unguarded plank that spa nned a 30- to 40-in. wide space, 13 ft above the ground at the second floor leve l, and 26 ft above ground at the third floor level. The scaffold platform was fo ur planks wide on the second and fourth levels and one plank wide (in the middle of the framing) on the third level. The platforms had cross braces but no guard rails. ular welded frame scaffold that had been erected alongside a 25-ft section of a three-story building. The foreman showed Employee #1 where he was to install mis sing brick ties between the second and third floors; they then went back to the third floor and parted company. Employee #1 went to the second floor outlet box and strung out an extension cord for his screw gun, which he took out onto the s caffold at the second level. He climbed the end framing to the third level and p roceeded toward the outer end of the wall. Employee #1 dropped his screw gun, wh ich caught in the plastic windbreaker sheeting that had been installed on the ou

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 21 M

Nature of injury
21

Part of body
19

Event type
5

Source
42

Occupation code
569

Human factor
1

Environmental factor
13

Task assigned
1

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