OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #709378
GUARDRAIL,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,ELEVATED WORK PLAT,LOST BALANCE,SCAFFOLD
Event description
Employee injured in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was on a work platform 18 feet above the ground, packing mud to bric k masons. The scaffold was three frames high and 70 ft long. No railing was prov ided on the back side of the work platform. Employee #1 lost his balance and fel l to the ground. He was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 563
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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