OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14299911
E & A CONTRACTORS INCORPORATED
GLEN BURNIE, MD·
Event description
Employee suffers concussion in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was sawing a 16 in. coal block from overhead while standing on an in 51, model #0601-33-139, with a 12 in. diameter metal blade. verted section of a steel drum that was 22 in. in diameter by 21 1/2 in. high. T he drum was on a 6 ft 6 in. high tubular scaffold. The saw jammed in a concrete joint, causing Employee #1 to lose his balance and fall 103 1/2 in. to the aspha lt below. He sustained a concussion and a contusion to the rear right side of hi s head, and required 13 stitches in the top rear of his head. Employee #1 had re ceived no prior training in the operation of the saw and told the foreman that h e had never used one before. The causal factors include lack of training and fai lure to recognize a hazardous condition. He was using a Bosch chopsaw #580A-5460
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 52 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 21
- Occupation code
- 563
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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