OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221462591

CHESTER ANDERSON & SONS INC

GRETNA, NE· 2022-05-23T00:00:00

Event: Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Elevated Work Plat, Elevated Work Platform, Extension Ladder, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Guardrail, Head, Laceration, Mobile Scaffold, Skull, Unguarded
NAICS: 238140
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345957872
Employer profile: CHESTER ANDERSON & SONS INC
Summary number: 221462591
Report ID: 0728900
Project type: A
Construction end-use: C

Event description

Employee lacerates head in fall from scaffolding

Investigation abstract

At 12:00 noon on May 23, 2022, an employee climbed the extension ladder in order to gain access to the hydro mobile scaffolding. While working from the unguarded scaffolding the employee fell approximately ten feet and struck his head on a railing below the scaffolding. The employee suffered no brain injury or concussion; however, he was hospitalized and required seven staples to close the laceration on the back of his head.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 34 M

Event type
5

Fall distance
10

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