OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #691915
FRACTURE,LUNG,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,LACERATION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,ELEVATED WORK PLAT,PUNCTURE,SCAFFOLD
Event description
Employee injured in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was taking a measurement and marking a wall from an 18 foot scaffold when he apparently fell 18 feet to the ground. No one observed the accident. Em ployee #1 was taken to Utah Valley Hospital for treatment of multiple fractures, punctured lungs, and lacerations.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 40 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 558
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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