OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #823229
BUFFALO CONSTRUCTION COMPANY INC
BELTSVILLE, MD·
Event description
Employee's shoulder bruised when struck by falling bricks
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was on the work platform of a three brick high scaffold. He has laid three courses of brick on an angle iron. As Employee #1 bent down to obtain mor e brick from the stock platform, the three courses of brick fell 18 in. off the iron angle beam and four bricks struck him on the back of his shoulder. He susta ined bruises to his upper shoulder and was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 21
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 563
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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