OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #821801
ROCKY'S ROOFING & SIDING, INC.
SILVER SPRING, MD·
Event description
Employee injured in fall from uneven scaffold platform
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was working from a pump jack scaffold hanging vinyl aluminum siding on the rear of a house. He had raised the pump jack plank to 12 ft. Once the sca ffold platform had been raised, a 2 in. by 12 in. by 10 ft plank that reached fr om the end of the scaffold to the existing roof became uneven. Employee #1 fell from the platform, sustaining bruises and four broken ribs. Employee #1 had been roofing and hanging siding for over 11 years.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 56 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 595
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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