OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #659797
FRACTURE,SUPPORT POSTS,WORK RULES,OVERLOADED,CONSTRUCTION,PUMP JACK SCAFFOLD,EQUIPMENT FAILURE,LACERATION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION
Event description
Employees injured in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employees #1, #2, #3, and #4 were installing vinyl siding on a three-story resid ential house from a wood pump jack scaffold, consisting of four doubled 40 ft lo ng, 2 by 4 wood poles and three 20 ft aluminum platforms 33 ft 4 in. from the gr ound. One worker was on the ground. Each employee was assigned to work around ea ch pole. When the four of them congregated around one pole, the pole broke and E mployees #1, #2, #3, and #4 fell to the ground. Employee #1 suffered multiple ar m fractures; Employee #2 suffered a fractured leg; Employee #3 suffered a cut/la ceration on his leg; and Employee #4 sustained a cut/laceration on his foot/ankl e. They were all hospitalized.
Victims (5)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 45 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 2
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Hospitalized Age 33 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 18
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#3 Hospitalized Age 34 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 18
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#4 Hospitalized Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 11
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#5 Non-hospitalized injury Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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