OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #707190
HENRY J. KNOTT INC.
CATONSVILLE, MD·
Event description
Employee injured in fall from incomplete scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, an assigned scaffold erector, was erecting the next level of a scaf fold. The 70 in. wide platform was incomplete because the scaffold frame and gua rdrails had not yet been put in place. He was installing the framework when he f ell, with frame in hand, approximately 28 ft from the incomplete scaffold platfo rm to the ground. Employee #1 sustained fractures to both ankles and legs, and w as flown to a shock trauma center for possible internal injuries.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 20 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 18
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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