OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #893735
GUARDRAIL,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,BACK,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,LOST BALANCE,TUBULAR SCAFFOLD
Event description
Employee injured in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was removing brick from a mortar pan on the platform of a metal tubu lar scaffold that was located along the north face of a house under construction . He lost his balance and fell 20 ft 10 in. to the ground. He sustained back inj uries and was hospitalized for four days. There were no guardrails in place on t he scaffolding.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 10 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 865
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 2
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