OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14300248
CHRIS FISCHER PAPER HANGING AND DECORATING CO.
ANNAPOLIS, MD·
Event description
Employee injured in fall from ladder on scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and coworkers were staining the wood siding on a single family home. They had erected an approximately 10 ft high mason's scaffold 10 ft away from t he house and placed two 12 ft by 12 ft by 2 in. planks on top of it. They then p ut a 28 ft aluminum extension ladder on the planks and leaned it against the hou se. When Employee #1 reached the top of the ladder, the scaffold kicked out and he fell approximately 30 ft to a concrete patio. He shattered both his heels and fractured the index finger on his left hand. The scaffold was not tied in to th e house.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 11
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 25
- Occupation code
- 579
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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