OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #709428
INTERWEST PAINTING & DECORATING
SALT LAKE CITY, UT·
Event description
Three employees injured in fall from scaffold plank
Investigation abstract
At 8:00 a.m. on October 6, 1987 in Salt Lake City, UT, Employees #1, #2, and #3 were stripping paint off the exterior of a building. They were using two aluminu m ladders and an aluminum and plywood platform called a scaffold plank. All thre e workers were on the scaffold plank when it fell. Employee #1 fell 24 feet, Emp loyee #2 fell 16 feet, and Employee #3 fell 12 feet. Employee #3 landed on aspha lt and Employees #1 and #2 landed on a concrete stairway going to the basement. All three employees were taken to the hospital.
Victims (3)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 556
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Hospitalized Age 20 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 18
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 579
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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#3 Hospitalized Age 20 M
- Nature of injury
- 20
- Part of body
- 18
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 579
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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