OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14549265
ACTIVE STEEL HAWAII
KAILUA KONA, HI·
Event description
Employee injured in fall from scaffold when plank breaks
Investigation abstract
After cutting off metal purlins, Employee #1 stepped down onto scaffold planks. One of the 2 by 12 (nominal) planks broke, causing the employee to fall approxim ately 15 ft to the concrete floor. Employee #1 fractured two vertebrae and susta ined a laceration to the back of his head that required hospitalization.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 36 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- NECK (20)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- WORKING SURFACE (42)
- Occupation
- Structural metal workers (597)
- Human factor
- EQUIP. INAPPROPR FOR OPERATION (6)
- Environmental factor
- WORK-SURFACE/FACIL-LAYOUT COND (13)
- Task assigned
- Task not regularly assigned (2)
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.