OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #781948
FRACTURE,DEMOLITION,IMPALED,CONSTRUCTION,SCAFFOLD COLLAPSE,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,FALLING OBJECT,CONTUSION,LEG
Event description
Three employees injured in scaffold collapse
Investigation abstract
Two employees were on a 15 ft scaffold and one employee was on the floor during demolition at building 783. A heat shield fell from a beam and struck the scaffo ld, causing it to collapse and Employee #1 to fall to the floor, where his leg w as impaled by a scaffold pin. Employee #2 fell astride a rail of the scaffold an d fractured his tailbone. Both Employees #1 and #2 required hospitalization. Emp loyee #3, who was on the floor, bruised his leg while running.
Victims (3)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 41 M
- Nature of injury
- 18
- Part of body
- 23
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Hospitalized Age 49 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 14
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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#3 Non-hospitalized injury Age 41 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 16
- Event type
- 6
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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