OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #887984
HEAD,PPE,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,SCAFFOLD COLLAPSE,INEXPERIENCE,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT,SCAFFOLD
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 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 553
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Hospitalized Age 29 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 564
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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