OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #893735
MCDONOUGH MASONRY
MCLEAN, VA·
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 Male
- Nature of injury
- Other (21)
- Part of body
- BACK (3)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- OTHER (43)
- Occupation
- Helpers, construction trades (865)
- Human factor
- OTHER (14)
- Environmental factor
- OTHER (18)
- Task assigned
- Task not regularly assigned (2)
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.