OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14297014
COASTAL MANUFACTURING CO.LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
WHITE MARSH, MD·
Event description
Employee fractures arm in fall from catwalk on mobile home
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and a coworker, the leadman, were installing metal parts across the top of an approximately 12 ft wide mobile office trailer. They were working from an aluminum catwalk that was 7 1/2 ft above the concrete floor. The leadman dec ided to move the side scaffold closer to the trailer and, in doing so, apparentl y caused the catwalk at the front of the trailer to become unbalanced and flip o ver. Employee #1, who was working atop the catwalk, was thrown to the concrete f loor and sustained a fractured left arm and a dislocated right hip.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 33 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- ARM-MULT (2)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- HOISTING APPARATUS (24)
- Occupation
- Carpenters (567)
- Human factor
- OTHER (14)
- Environmental factor
- OTHER (18)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.