OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #887984
CORNERSTONE MASONRY COMPANY
SCAGGSVILLE, MD·
Event description
Two employees injured when scaffold collapses
Investigation abstract
Employees were laying brick on the front of a single family home. They had erect ed a tubular welded frame scaffold two bucks high and approximately 35 ft long. The scaffold was erected on mud sills and was cross braced properly. The employe es were standing atop the first buck, 6 ft 6 in. above the ground, when the scaf fold collapsed because two sets of cross bracing had been removed by newly hired laborers. Employees #1 and #2, who were on the scaffold, were struck by falling brick and masonry debris. Employee #1 suffered head injuries and Employee #2 fr actured one or more fingers; both were hospitalized. Neither of the employees wa s wearing hard hats at the time of the accident.
Victims (2)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 40 Male
- Nature of injury
- Bruise/Contus/Abras (3)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- WORKING SURFACE (42)
- Occupation
- Supervisors; brickmasons, stonemasons, tilesetters (553)
- Human factor
- INSUF/LACK/PROTCV WRK CLTHG/EQUIP (20)
- Environmental factor
- OVERHEAD MOVING/FALLING OBJ AC (6)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
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#2 Hospitalized Age 29 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- FINGER(S) (10)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- WORKING SURFACE (42)
- Occupation
- Brickmasons and stonemasons apprentices (564)
- Human factor
- INSUF/LACK/PROTCV WRK CLTHG/EQUIP (20)
- Environmental factor
- OVERHEAD MOVING/FALLING OBJ AC (6)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.