OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221449515

LION POWER BUILDERS INC

TAMPA, FL· 2021-11-01T00:00:00

Event: Construction, Erection Process, Falling Object, Fracture, Head, Laceration, Lack of Work Procedures, Material Handling, Metal Pole, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Plywood, Puncture, Residential Construction, Scaffold, Shoulder, Struck By, Unstable Load
NAICS: 236220
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345613830
Employer profile: LION POWER BUILDERS INC
Summary number: 221449515
Report ID: 0420600
Project type: A
Construction end-use: B

Event description

Employee incurs head, shoulder injuries when struck by post

Investigation abstract

At 9:00 a.m. on November 1, 2021, an employee was working with coworkers erecting a scaffold. The employee passed a SVP-10 (10 foot long vertical post) from the ground to coworkers on the scaffold. Once the SVP-10 reached the top, the coworkers grabbed the SVP-10 by the leg from the coupling pin. The pin was not secured properly to the leg and the SVP-10 fell approximately 30 feet. On the way down the SVP-10 struck a plywood wall protecting a crane. The SVP-10 was then deflected from the plywood, falling and bouncing on the ground and striking the employee in the upper body. The employee incurred head and shoulder fractures, punctures and lacerations, requiring hospitalization.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 35 M

Event type
1

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