OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #800250
RUSCON CONSTRUCTION CO.
CHARLESTON, SC·
Event description
Employee injures back while debanding scaffold sections
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was debanding a scaffold section. As he stood in front of the sectio n and clipped the band, the sections (which come 10 to a bundle and weigh approx imately 40 lb) sprang loose and pinned him against an erected scaffold. Employee #1 suffered back injuries and was hospitalized for observation.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 35 M
- Nature of injury
- 20
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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