OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14377089

GUARDRAIL,INSTALLING,UNSECURED,WORK RULES,SLIP,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,SCAFFOLD

1985-01-17T00:00:00

Event: GUARDRAIL,INSTALLING,UNSECURED,WORK RULES,SLIP,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,SCAFFOLD
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 14377089
Report ID: 521700

Event description

Employee injured in fall from scaffold

Investigation abstract

At 10:20 a.m. on January 17, 1985, Employee #1 was installing insulation on pipe s in a pipe rack for an addition to an oil refinery. He was working from a scaff old plank (also called a pick or a runner) that measured 32 feet long, 14 inches wide, and 6 inches thick, and was laid on the crossmembers of the pipe rack. Th e plank had not been fastened down and the scaffold was not equipped with guardr ails. Employee #1 had been sitting on the scaffold plank and, as he got up to mo ve along it, he slipped and fell 18 feet to the ground. He was hospitalized. A c itation was recommended for the lack of guardrails. Employee #1 had been working at this job for 2 1/2 months.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 33 M

Nature of injury
12

Part of body
13

Event type
5

Source
42

Occupation code
999

Human factor
1

Environmental factor
13

Task assigned
1

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