OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221434525
PURBAUGH MASONRY INC
LINCOLN, NE·
Event description
Employee falls from scaffold and receives leg fracture
Investigation abstract
At 8:30 a.m. on December 7, 2021, an employee climbed the access ladder to a hydro-mobile scaffold. As the employee attempted to transition from the access ladder to the platform, the employee became distracted, lost grip on the ladder, and fell approximately twenty feet. The employee was hospitalized to treat a leg fracture.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 41 M
- Event type
- 5
- Occupation code
- 563
- Fall distance
- 20
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