OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #742080
RANDOLPH PHIPPS CONST CO, INC.
BALTIMORE, MD·
Event description
Employee's head lacerated when struck by falling wood
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was standing 25 ft from a 16 ft dump truck wearing a hard hat. He wa s ensuring that no one entered the area in which workers were throwing 1 in. by 3 in. by 12 ft long pieces of oak flooring out of fourth-floor windows and into the truck. According to Employee #1, when he bent down to tie his shoe a 6 ft pi ece of wood bounced off the dump truck and hit him on the side of his head, caus ing a laceration. Employee #1 was transported to Sinai Hospital, where he receiv ed 17 stiches.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 18 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 869
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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