OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #761411
JOE SHIELDS & ASSOC., INC.
WINSTON-SALEM, NC·
Event description
Employee suffers fractures in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was spraying fireproofing material onto steel ceiling beams of a col iseum under construction. He was working on a manually-propelled mobile scaffold 13 ft 6 in. high. Employee #1 either misstepped or slipped on fireproofing mate rial on the scaffold boards and fell to the concrete floor. Employee #1 landed o n his face, suffering a fractured skull and superficial facial wounds. He also f ractured both wrists.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 20 M
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- WORKING SURFACE (42)
- Occupation
- Construction trades, n.e.c. (599)
- Human factor
- SAFETY DEVICES REMOVED/INOPER. (9)
- Environmental factor
- WORK-SURFACE/FACIL-LAYOUT COND (13)
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
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