OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #742106
LANG MASONRY INC
BALTIMORE, MD·
Event description
Employee injured in scaffold collapse
Investigation abstract
At 1:00 p.m. on September 23, 1988, Employee #1 and a coworker, a mason laborer, t bracket. were on a scaffold that had been erected on the wood floor of a second-story st airwell of a townhouse under construction. Employee #1 was 9 ft from floor level as a load of block was being placed on the scaffold. A wood joist end in the fl oor beneath the scaffold cracked and gave way, causing the scaffold to fall over . Employee #1 sustained a scalp wound and back injuries. A 5 ft house masonry wa ll was knocked over the wood floor and was damaged. The carpenters who construct ed the wood floor had failed to support one end of the 2 by 10 by 123 ft wood jo ist. The end had only been stacked and was not supported by a metal joist suppor
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 6
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 564
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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