OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #694299
BOARD,FRACTURE,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,EQUIPMENT FAILURE,BACK,RIB,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,TUBULAR SCAFFOLD
Event description
Employee injured in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
At approximately 7:30 a.m. on March 28, 1986, Employee #1 and coworkers were ins affold to the ground, landing on his back. He sustained several fractured ribs, various contusions and abrasions, and injured his back. Employee #1 was hospital ized. Failure to check the condition of all the scaffold boards prior to doing a ny work from this scaffold caused the fall. talling plywood siding at the northeast corner of an addition to a maintenance b uilding. They were working on a tubular welded frame scaffold that was approxima tely 12 ft above ground. Employee #1 had been on the ground cutting the plywood and handing it up to a coworker who was on the scaffold to tack it in place. Emp loyee #1, who was a heavyset man, decided to climb onto the scaffold to check me asurements for accuracy. He climbed a ladder at the north end of the scaffold an d proceeded toward the middle of the scaffold. When he got to the middle of the scaffold, one of the boards broke and he fell approximately 12 ft through the sc
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 56 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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