OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14477947
W.W. GAGNON & SON
PORTLAND, ME·
Event description
Employee injured in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and a coworker were at a height of 10 to 12 ft on an A-frame scaffol d, siding a residential building. while working at about 10 to 12 ft high on an A-frame scaffold. While stretching, one of the employees forced the scaffold awa y from the building and both workers fell to the ground. Employee #1 suffered ba ck injuries. The cause of the accident may have been poor footing. No constructi on standards exist for this type of scaffold, which is similar to a horse-type s caffold. OSHA did not have jurisdiction in this case, so a thorough investigatio n was not performed.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 42 M
- Nature of injury
- 20
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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