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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #735860

LADDER,CONSTRUCTION,PLANK,BACK,FALL,SCAFFOLD

Event
LADDER,CONSTRUCTION,PLANK,BACK,FALL,SCAFFOLD
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
735860
Report ID
452110

Event description

Employee injured in fall from scaffold

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 and coworkers were using a coupler scaffold. They placed a plank fro m the scaffold to the roof of the Kaster Building so that they could reach a two point suspension scaffold. Employee #1 fell either from the plank or a ladder. He was hospitalized with back injuries.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 40 M

    Nature of injury
    12
    Part of body
    3
    Event type
    5
    Source
    42
    Occupation code
    563
    Human factor
    6
    Environmental factor
    13
    Task assigned
    1

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