OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #822700
KRAFFT-MURPHY COMPANY
OLNEY, MD·
Event description
Employees injured when scaffold overturned
Investigation abstract
Employees #1 and #2 were working 9 ft 6 in. above a concrete floor from an outri gger platform that was attached to a mobile scaffold. An outrigger was not attac hed to the opposite side of the mobile scaffold. A coworker was pushing the mobi le scaffold with the two employees on the outrigger. The wheels of the scaffold hit an extension cord that was running across the floor and the scaffold overtur ned, throwing Employees #1 and #2 to the floor. Both were hospitalized.
Victims (2)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 50 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 3
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Hospitalized Age 27 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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