OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #891234
APPLE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY INC
SILVER SPRING, MD·
Event description
Employee injured when struck by framing wall
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was on the floor near the west wall of a townhouse on lot #64. Thre e walls had been framed, the front wall was half completed, and braces were bein g installed on the second floor. He was framing the remainder of the front when a gust of wind knocked down approximately 20 ft of the west core wall and frame on top of him. The foreman, who was standing about 5 ft east of Employee #1, man aged to jump out of the way and was not injured. He and coworkers lifted the wal l and pulled Employee #1 out from under it. Employee #1 sustained a fractured ri ght leg and rib, and was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 24 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 16
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 17
- Task assigned
- 1
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