OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14437644
G & R ELECTRIC, INC.
SUGAR CITY, ID·
Event description
Employees suffer multiple injuries in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
Four employees gathered at one point on a 17 1/2 ft high scaffold. The wire hold ing the beam that was supporting the scaffold platform broke, causing the portio n of the scaffold where the employees were standing to fall. Employees #1, #2, a nd #3 fell to the floor. Employee #1 suffered shattered heels and a fractured ba ck; Employee #2 was hit in the face by a falling board and suffered a broken che ekbone and nose; Employee #3 suffered fractured ribs. A fourth employee held ont o the ceiling framework and was able to swing onto the scaffolding that remained standing. He was not injured.
Victims (5)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 35 M
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- FOOT/ANKLE (11)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- WORKING SURFACE (42)
- Occupation
- Sales counter clerks (275)
- Human factor
- INSUFF/LACK/WRITN WRK PRAC PROG. (18)
- Environmental factor
- WORK-SURFACE/FACIL-LAYOUT COND (13)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
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#2 Non-hospitalized injury Age 22 M
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- FACE (9)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- WORKING SURFACE (42)
- Occupation
- Electricians' apprentices (576)
- Human factor
- INSUFF/LACK/WRITN WRK PRAC PROG. (18)
- Environmental factor
- WORK-SURFACE/FACIL-LAYOUT COND (13)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
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#3 Hospitalized Age 50 M
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- CHEST (5)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- WORKING SURFACE (42)
- Occupation
- Supervisors; painters, paperhangers and plasterers (556)
- Human factor
- INSUFF/LACK/WRITN WRK PRAC PROG. (18)
- Environmental factor
- WORK-SURFACE/FACIL-LAYOUT COND (13)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
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#981 Age 0
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#982 Age 0
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