OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14379358
RIVER CITY MASONRY, INC.
CHAMPAIGN, IL·
Event description
Employees injured in fall when scaffold fails
Investigation abstract
Employees #1 through #5 were 25 ft above the ground working from a Morgan scaffo ld when a cable pulley support system failed, causing them to fall. Employees #1 through #4 were hospitalized. Employee #5 sustained bruises to the arm. The saf ety catch device was inoperable.
Victims (5)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 38 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- HIP(S) (14)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- WORKING SURFACE (42)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- SAFETY DEVICES REMOVED/INOPER. (9)
- Environmental factor
- OVERHEAD MOVING/FALLING OBJ AC (6)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
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#2 Hospitalized Age 42 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- NECK (20)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- WORKING SURFACE (42)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- SAFETY DEVICES REMOVED/INOPER. (9)
- Environmental factor
- OVERHEAD MOVING/FALLING OBJ AC (6)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
-
#3 Hospitalized Age 49 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- ELBOW(S) (7)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- WORKING SURFACE (42)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- SAFETY DEVICES REMOVED/INOPER. (9)
- Environmental factor
- OVERHEAD MOVING/FALLING OBJ AC (6)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
-
#4 Hospitalized Age 33 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- BACK (3)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- WORKING SURFACE (42)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- SAFETY DEVICES REMOVED/INOPER. (9)
- Environmental factor
- OVERHEAD MOVING/FALLING OBJ AC (6)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
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#5 Non-hospitalized injury Age 51 Male
- Nature of injury
- Bruise/Contus/Abras (3)
- Part of body
- ARM-MULT (2)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- WORKING SURFACE (42)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- SAFETY DEVICES REMOVED/INOPER. (9)
- Environmental factor
- OVERHEAD MOVING/FALLING OBJ AC (6)
- 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.