OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14297014
FRACTURE,INSTALLING,WORK RULES,DISLOCATED,CATWALK,FALL,ARM,COMMUNICATION,HIP,OVERTURN
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 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 2
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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