OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #777573
U.S. GENERAL INC.
SALT LAKE CITY, UT·
Event description
Employee hospitalized after fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was sent to a construction project by SOS Temporaries and was under the supervision of the superintendent for U.S. General, Inc. Ten minutes after a rriving on the job, Employee #1 fell 16 1/2 ft from the scaffold that he was wor king from. Employee #1 was hospitalized. Employee #1 appeared to fall after he h ad lifted some lumber. A coworker said that he appeared to tremble before he fel l toward the building. The railing and work platform scaffold were adequate for the job.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 18 Male
- Nature of injury
- Concussion (6)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- CHEM LIQUIDS/VAPORS (9)
- Occupation
- Construction laborers (869)
- Human factor
- OTHER (14)
- Environmental factor
- WORK-SURFACE/FACIL-LAYOUT COND (13)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.