OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #666313
UNSECURED,CARPENTER,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,PLANK,FALL,COMMUNICATION,SCAFFOLD
Event description
Employee sustains fractures in fall from unsecured planks
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a carpenter foreman on a residential project, went through a window to access a carpenter's wall bracket scaffolding. Earlier that day, a coworker had removed one of the wall brackets, but left the scaffolding planks overhangin g the remaining wall brackets. When Employee #1 stepped on the overhanging unsec ured planks, they tipped and he fell 16 ft to the ground. Employee #1 sustained multiple fractures and was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 49 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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