OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14296339
KASCO CHESAPEAKE BUILDERS, INC.
COLUMBIA, MD·
Event description
Employee's head cut when struck by falling cinder block
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a laborer, was watching a Hyster lift truck place a pallet of cinde r blocks onto a scaffold that was three bucks high. A cinder block fell from the pallet, hit the scaffold, and bounced outward. It struck Employee #1 on the sho ulder and head. He was transported to Howard County General Hospital, where he r eceived eight stitches in his head. Employee #1 was not equipped with or instruc ted to wear a hard hat while on site.
Victims (2)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 869
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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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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