OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14560387
BARRY-BETTE-LEDUC COMPANY
BECKET, MA·
Event description
Employee injured in fall from scaffold struck by truck
Investigation abstract
On July 20, 1987, Employee #1 was working on a tubular welded-frame scaffold in the roadway under a turnpike bridge. The area was reported to be coned off. A tr ailer truck that was waved through by the officer on duty bumped or hit the scaf fold and Employee #1 fell to the ground. He was hospitalized for one day. When i nterviewed on September 11, 1987, the foreman on site said Employee #1 was relea sed and returned to work, but was laid off on September 1, 1987. The state polic e reported the accident.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 25 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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