OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #691964
KREMCO INC
OGDEN, UT·
Event description
Employee injured in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was setting up an oil rig in a manufacturing yard for testing. He dr opped into a sitting position to move from a section of the rig that was approxi mately 12 ft above ground level onto a scaffold plank at the same elevation. The jarring created by his drop onto the plank caused it to twist and come loose, w hich, in turn, caused the employee to fall backward to the concrete and land on his head. The plank also fell, striking him in the back. Employee #1 was hospita lized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 36 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 783
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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