OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #744920
THE KEY SCHOOL INC.
ANNAPOLIS, MD·
Event description
Employee hospitalized after bumping head on scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 is employed as a part-time maintenance man for a school. A manually propelled mobile scaffold had been erected in the gymnasium for an electrical co ntractor. Employee #1 walked over to where the scaffold was stored and bent down , apparently to pick something up. When he stood up, the back of his head struck a round cross brace. Because the right side of his body felt numb, he was flown to shock trauma and kept overnight for observation.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 22 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 6
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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