OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #888651
CONCRETE FORM WORK,FRACTURE,GUARDRAIL,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,ABRASION,FALL,UNTRAINED,UNGUARDED,SCAFFOLDING
Event description
Employee injured in 13 ft fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
On December 12, 1988, Employee #1 (a site foreman) and two coworkers were removi t receive training in how to recognize and avoid hazardous conditions in the wor k environment. Safe access to the scaffolding was not provided and employees on the ground were not wearing head protection. Concrete form removal was not a reg ular work activity of the company, which normally performs ground level concrete functions. It was being done on a fee basis for a subcontractor who had been hi red by this employer to construct the concrete poured walls but who, on the day before the accident, could not meet production commitments. ng concrete from the south wall of a building under construction. They were stan ding on an attached carpenter's bucket scaffolding while they removed metal conc rete form panels and lowered them to one side. There were no guardrails on the o pen side or at the ends of the 13 ft high scaffold. Employee #1 fell from the op en side to the ground, sustaining cracked ribs, a bruised lung, and abrasions, f or which he was hospitalized. A number of safety issues surfaced as a result of this accident. The employer does not have an accident prevention program; safety inspections are not conducted on site by competent persons; and employees do no
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 1
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 558
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 2
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