OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14296305
AREA ROOFING & SIDING COMPANY
SAVAGE, MD·
Event description
Employee suffers multiple injuries when scaffold collapses
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was installing vinyl siding from a pump jack scaffold. He was workin g at a height of 21 ft, using a 28 ft long by 20 in. wide aluminum walkboard, wh en one of the two scaffold poles broke. Employee #1 fell, breaking his right hip and wrist, and his left knee, shoulder, and arm. The distance between the poles was approximately 22 ft. Employee #1 weighed approximately 350 lb. No guardrail s were installed on the scaffold.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 45 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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