OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #888446
OGDEN CONSTRUCTION CO.
POTOMAC, MD·
Event description
Employee bruised in fall when scaffold board breaks
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was standing on a scaffold board of a pump jack scaffold to install a double hung window into a new opening. The board broke and he fell 12 ft 9 in. to the dirt ground. He was hospitalized with multiple bruises.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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