OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14429559
HOLTZE BROTHERS CONSTRUCTION
ENGLEWOOD, CO·
Event description
Employee injured in fall from job-made scaffold board
Investigation abstract
Three employees were working 22 feet above ground level from a pump jack scaffol d. The scaffold board, which was job-made, broke in two near the mid-point. Empl oyee #1 fell and fractured his hip. The scaffold board, consisting of 2 by 4s an d wafer boards, was 12 feet long by 2 feet wide. Two by fours and wafer boards a re not the equivalent of scaffold grade planking. The scaffold board was also ov erloaded for its given span.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 14
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 12
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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