OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #704254
STOP CONSTRUCTION CO., INC.
BALTIMORE, MD·
Event description
Temporary employee injured by collapsing wall
Investigation abstract
At approximately 8:00 a.m. on December 29, 1986, Employee #1, of a temporary emp on. He was provided only with a hard hat and gloves. loyment service, had been assigned as a laborer for the Stop Construction Co., I nc., at a school building renovation. This was his first day on the job site. Af ter making initial contact with his supervisor, the foreman, he was assigned to empty wheelbarrels. A short time later he was instructed to help a coworker knoc k down a wall using a sledgehammer and crowbar. While Employee #1 was prying bri cks loose with the crowbar, the wall collapsed on top of him. He was taken to Un iversity Hospital for treatment of a bruised and swollen back, neck, and right k nee. Employee #1 had not received any safety or hazard training on wall demoliti
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 18 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 869
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 2
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