OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #972331
FRACTURE,LUNG,SHOULDER,RIB,FALL,CONTUSION,OVERTURN,SCAFFOLD,UNSTABLE POSITION,WRIST
Event description
Employee suffers multiple injuries in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
At 2:30 p.m. on January 22, 1990, Employee #1 was climbing up a 6 ft Baker's sca ffold to retrieve a level. As he reached the planking at the top inside corner o f the scaffold, he reached for the level and the scaffold tipped over. Employee #1 fell to the concrete, sustaining multiple fractures of the left wrist, a brok en rib, a bruised lung, and two breaks to the scapula behind the socket of the l eft shoulder. Employee #1 could not remember any details between reaching for th e level and being on the floor. He is now at home on oxygen due to the injuries to his lung.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 38 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 728
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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