OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #968453
SIERRA FIRE PROTECTION INC.
LAS VEGAS, NV·
Event description
Employee injured in fall from scaffold planks
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was using scaffold planks to access the third floor. While descendin g, he lost his balance and fell approximately 11 ft from a third- to a second-fl oor landing. He suffered back injuries and remained at Valley Hospital for four days. The planks had been set in the stairwell by another (undetermined) company and were not the only access to the third floor. Causal factors include lack of fall protection and inadequate employee training.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 39 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 585
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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