OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #691980
INTERWEST MECHANICAL
SALT LAKE CITY, UT·
Event description
Employee's knee injured in fall from mobile scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was sealing joints on a heating duct from a mobile scaffold that mea sured 14 feet high and 10 feet long. He was riding atop it while pulling the sca ffold along a concrete floor. A scaffold wheel went into a floor drain and the s caffold tipped until it struck against a concrete wall. Employee #1 rode with th e tipping scaffold until it hit the wall and then he fell 7 ft off the scaffold to the concrete. Employee #1 was taken to a hospital for treatment of a bruised left knee and then released.
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 20 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 15
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 596
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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