OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #777896
UNSECURED,WORK RULES,SLIP,CONSTRUCTION,LACERATION,RIB,FALL,ELEVATED WORK PLAT,HIP,CONTUSION
Event description
Employee injured in fall from platform
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was stripping concrete forms under an overpass, working from a work platform he had built inside the overpass beams. The platform was 10 feet wide a nd made of 2 in. by 12 in. planks. The planks had been cut for a different job a nd were too short for this job. When Employee #1 stood on one end of a plank, it slid, causing him to fall 16 ft 6 in. to the asphalt road. Employee #1 was take n to L.D.S. Hospital. He suffered a cut on the right side of his head that requi red 12 stitches, and bruises on his right shoulder, ribs, and hip.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 588
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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