OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #691766
UNSECURED,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,PLANK,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,SCAFFOLD
Event description
Employee injured in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was carrying mud west to east on the second level of a scaffold. He made 5 to 6 trips before stepping on the planking and displacing it. He fell 13 ft to the ground along with the planks, which were 2 in. by 10 in. by 16 ft. A c ross brace on the first level broke his fall. Five planks filled the scaffold pl atform.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 27 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 564
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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