OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #823625
LITE MARKERS INC.
BALTIMORE, MD·
Event description
Employee bruised in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
At approximately 1:00 p.m. on March 2, 1988, Employee #1, a light installer, was moving from a lower to a higher plank on an approximately 24 ft high scaffold w hen he slipped and fell sideways. He tried to grab the cross bracing but fell be tween the planks. He landed on a scaffold plank that was about 7 ft from the flo or, rolled over, and then fell to the concrete floor. He sustained minor bruises .
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 33 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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