OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #950709
FRACTURE,LUNG,GUARDRAIL,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,RIB,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,ELEVATED WORK PLAT,LOST BALANCE
Event description
EMPLOYEE INJURED IN FALL FROM SCISSOR LIFT WHILE ROOFING
Investigation abstract
AT APPROXIMATELY 11:10 AM ON OCTOBER 5, 1989, EMPLOYEE #1 AND THREE OTHER EMPLOY ROXIMATELY 15 FEET TO THE GROUND, STRIKING HIS HEAD ON THE EDGE OF A CONCRETE SI DEWALK. HE SUFFERED A SERIOUS HEAD INJURY, 4 BROKEN RIBS AND A COLLAPSED LUNG. T HE MAIN CAUSAL FACTOR WAS THE ABSENCE OF GUARDRAILS ON THE END OF THE PLATFORM F ROM WHICH HE FELL. EES WERE 15 FEET UP ON AN ELEVATED SCISSOR LIFT, WILDCAT MODEL SPL 2577 4A, INST ALLING ROOFING PAPER ON A 6:12 PITCH ROOF. TO GET TO THE ROOF SURFACE, THEY HAD CONSTRUCTED A 4 FOOT BY 8 FOOT OUTRIGGER PLATFORM THAT WAS ATTACHED TO THE OUTSI DE OF THE LIFT'S PLATFORM. THIS PLATFORM WAS STURDILY MADE AND IN NO WAY HAD AN ADVERSE EFFECT ON THE INTEGRITY OF THE SCISSOR LIFT. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS APPLYING TH E GLUE AND THE OTHER EMPLOYEES WERE APPLYING THE ROOFING PAPER. THEY WERE WORKIN G ON THE OUTRIGGER PLATFORM WHICH HAD NO SAFETY RAILS ON EITHER END. WHEN EMPLOY EE #1 GOT TO ONE END OF THE PLATFORM HE APPARENTLY LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL APP
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 54 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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