OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #672444
PEARSON CONSTRUCTION COMPANY INC
INDIANAPOLIS, IN·
Event description
Employee injures spine in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
On June 9, 1989, Employee #1 was hanging a 4 ft by 7 ft 4 in by 5/8 in. piece of scaffold were not locked to prevent movement; (3) the scaffold did not rest on s uitable footing; (4) the scaffold was not properly braced; (5) the scaffold did not have guardrails. drywall on the north wall of the interior of an office building. He was standin g on the 11 ft platform of a 12 ft high by 6 ft 1 1/2 in. long by 2 ft 5 in. wid e manually-propelled mobile scaffold. Employee #1 was receiving the drywall from a coworker who was standing below on a platform that was 4 ft 3 1/2 in. high. W hen the coworker jumped from the scaffold it tipped over and Employee #1 was thr own onto the sandy ground. Employee #1 required hospitalization for spinal injur ies. Contributing factors to the fall were that: (1) the scaffold was more than four times the minimum base dimensions in height; (2) the casters of the mobile
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 33 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- BACK (3)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- OTHER (43)
- Occupation
- Carpenters (567)
- Human factor
- EQUIP. INAPPROPR FOR OPERATION (6)
- Environmental factor
- WORK-SURFACE/FACIL-LAYOUT COND (13)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
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