OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14399828
WORK RULES,FALL,STRUCK BY,BRIDGE,ELEVATED WORK PLAT,FALLING OBJECT,INATTENTION,SCAFFOLD,WARNING SIGN
Event description
Employees injured when scaffold falls from overpass
Investigation abstract
Employees #1 and #2 were working from a scaffold platform that was suspended fro m the side of a highway overpass and over a street traveled by automobiles and t rucks. A high truck passed and hit the scaffold platform, breaking it loose from the scaffold support and causing the employees and the platform to fall to the street. Employees #1 and #2 were also struck by the falling scaffold; both emplo yees were hospitalized.
Victims (2)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 38 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Hospitalized Age 25 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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