OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #888081
FRACTURE,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,EQUIPMENT FAILURE,SCAFFOLD COLLAPSE,UNTRAINED,LEG,SCAFFOLD,SCAFFOLDING
Event description
Employee's leg fractured in scaffold collapse
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was part of a crew that was grouting a steel plate, located approxim ining contributed to this accident. ately 1.5 ft from the roof of a produce market. The plates were anchored to stee l beams in the brick walls of the market and were used to help support the walls . The employee was working on a job-made suspension scaffold that was hooked ove r the ledge of the roof. The 5-ft-high by 3-ft-wide scaffold was located between units 18 to 20 of the building and was approximately 7 ft above a metal awning. One of the two scaffold arms that were hooked over the roof ledge broke, causin g the scaffold and Employee #1 to fall to the awning. He sustained a compound fr acture to his lower right leg. Inadequate scaffold material and insufficient tra
Victim
-
#1 Hospitalized Age 34 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 18
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 25
- Occupation code
- 554
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.