OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #998492
BURG-MILLER TUCKPOINTING, INC.
ST. PAUL, MN·
Event description
Employee's ankles fractured in fall from collapsing scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, who was acid washing brick from a suspended scaffold, noticed a low er block hook that was either cinched or twisted in the bridle eye. He crawled o ver the parapet wall 50 ft above the ground without snapping his grabber and lan yard to his safety belt. He attempted to kick the hook into position but it twis ted out, causing the left side of the scaffold to let go. Employee #1, who was w earing wet cloth gloves, attempted to hold onto the hoisting rope, but he slippe d and fell 50 ft. He fractured both ankles and was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 21 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 18
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 563
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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