OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #975649
FRACTURE,MOBILE SCAFFOLD,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,ARM,ANKLE,SCAFFOLD
Event description
Employee injured in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
At approximately 1:50 p.m. on December 14, 1988, Employee #1 was taping a drywal l joint while standing on a 2 in by 12 in. wood board that was on top of a 15 ft 9 in. high manually-propelled mobile scaffold. When he stepped off the board, h e fell to the level, finished concrete floor, breaking both ankles and his right arm.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 31 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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