OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #891739
CLIPPER CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
ELLICOTT CITY, MD·
Event description
Employee bruised in fall when brace breaks
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was walking on a brace for trusses, attaching the brace to the truss es being placed. The brace broke and he fell 28 ft from the roof to the first fl oor. He sustained multiple bruises and was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 32 Male
- Nature of injury
- Bruise/Contus/Abras (3)
- Part of body
- BODYSYSTEM (4)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- WORKING SURFACE (42)
- Occupation
- Carpenters (567)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- WORK-SURFACE/FACIL-LAYOUT COND (13)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.