OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #822874
SHOULDER,UNSECURED,CONSTRUCTION,PLANK,BACK,FALL,ARM,CONTUSION,LEG,TUBULAR SCAFFOLD
Event description
Employee sustains multiple injuries in fall
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a laborer, was on a material platform of a tubular welded frame sca t incident during the morning, shortly after lunch Employee #1 stepped on them a nd the outside plank fell down inside the crossbraces. He fell with the plank, s triking the crossbraces on the way down and sustaining scrapes and bruises to hi s right arm, shoulder, back, and left leg. The outside plank had apparently been off the bearer. ffold that was 6.5 ft tall (one frame high). The scaffold was being used to erec t a block wall above a concrete floor. Employee #1 was supplying the masons whil e another laborer was supplying him from the floor. Employee #1 was standing on a stocking platform that was five planks wide (2 in. by 10 in. by 16 in.); the m asons were using a standard two-plank bracket platform next to the wall. Two adj acent sections of scaffold were already supplied, each spaced 7.5 ft apart, and were extended by about 10 in. by adding another frame. The planks were therefore extended over one frame by only 1 to 2 in. Although the planks were used withou
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 21 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 869
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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