OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221462757

VT HALTER MARINE, INC.

PASCAGOULA, MS· 2021-12-15T00:00:00

Event: Back, Boat, Defect, Defective, Defective Equipment, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Fracture, Manhole, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Plank, Planking, Scaffold, Ship, Shipyard, Vertebra, Walking Surface, Welder
NAICS: 336611
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345699391
Employer profile: VT HALTER MARINE, INC.
Summary number: 221462757
Report ID: 0419400

Event description

Employee fractures vertebrae in fall from defective scaffold

Investigation abstract

At 7:30 a.m. on December 15, 2021, an employee was attempting to set up air and electric hoses to start welding on a ship. The employee was exiting a manhole onto a scaffold to remove the hoses in order to place them in another work area. The scaffold was missing planks and was tagged out of service. When the employee stepped onto the scaffold, he fell onto the walking surface of the ship. The employee fractured his vertebrae and was hospitalized.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 50 M

Event type
5

Occupation code
783

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