OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #979526
LACERATION,FRACTURE,DISMANTLING,CONSTRUCTION,SCAFFOLD COLLAPSE,FALLING OBJECT,SCAFFOLD
Event description
Employee injured when scaffold falls
Investigation abstract
At approximately 3:30 p.m., Employee #1, a mason tender employed for four months by G & S Masonry, and a coworker were disassembling a scaffold along the west w all of building J as instructed. The employees had removed the planks from the t op of the scaffold, which was approximately 35 ft from the ground, and stacked t he planks in four piles along the outer part of the scaffold on side brackets. A s Employee #1 turned to pick up a plank, the end section of the scaffold shifted and fell to the ground, injuring him. He was hospitalized with multiple fractur es and lacerations.
Victims (2)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 22 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 869
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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