OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #999342
SUNRISE SPECIALTIES, INC.
PLYMOUTH, MN·
Event description
Employee injured in fall from suspended scaffold.
Investigation abstract
At approximately 9:30 a.m. on August 3, 1987, Employee #1 was preparing to tuck- point a 99 ft tall smokestack from a single-point suspended scaffold. While he w as ascending the smokestack the scaffold broke free and the basket and the emplo yee fell approximately 40 ft to the ground. Employee #1 sustained multiple fract ures to both legs and one arm, and was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 40 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 563
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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