OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #822957
GYPSUM CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
LINTHICUM, MD·
Event description
Employee suffers bruises in fall with scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was approximately 6 ft 6 in. above the floor on a Baker's scaffold, finishing a drywall joint. The scaffold was not secured with wheel locks and it rolled off a 1 ft lip. Employee #1 and the scaffold fell to the floor. He sustai ned bruises to his body.
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 24 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 573
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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