OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221426174
DI FRANCO MASONRY INC.
DENVER, CO·
Event description
Two employees fall from scaffold and receive fractures
Investigation abstract
At 4:00 p.m. on January 7, 2022, Employee #1 and Employee #2 worked from a scaffold to install precast chimney caps on a new chimney. Both employees were working on the same deck and were raising a chimney cap (weighing approximately eighty pounds) when the scaffold plank failed and both employees fell approximately twenty-eight feet. Employee #1 received a leg fracture and Employee #2 received rib fractures. Both employees were taken to the hospital and admitted for treatment.
Victims (2)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 36 M
- Event type
- 5
- Occupation code
- 563
- Fall distance
- 28
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#2 Hospitalized Age 60 M
- Event type
- 5
- Occupation code
- 563
- Fall distance
- 28
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