OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #888248
FALCON MASONRY, INC.
ANNAPOLIS, MD·
Event description
Employee fractures ankle in fall
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and a coworker were laying blocks for the foundation of a single fam ily home. The blocks were stacked outside of the house and employees had laid tw o 2 by 10 by 16 boards to slide the blocks approximately 4 ft down from the outs ide to the inside of the house. A wheelbarrow was being used to clean up broken blocks and other debris. Employee #1, the foreman, was walking toward a coworker when his right knee struck against the handle of the wheelbarrow, throwing him off balance. He threw his left foot out to catch himself and his foot landed on the 2 by 10 boards. He fell, breaking his left ankle, for which he was hospitali zed.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 35 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 11
- Event type
- 4
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 553
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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