Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 114584.015 - Employee falls when scaffold collapses, breaks arm and pelvi

Accident Summary Nr: 114584.015 -- Report ID: 0950632 -- Event Date: 11/08/2018
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1386082.015	03/19/2019		238130	Bsa Production Framing

Abstract: At 10:30 a.m. on November 8, 2018, Employee #1, employed by a framing contractor, was working at a multiemployer project, the construction of a new residential townhouse development. He was framing the crickets on the roof of a building. The employee accessed the bracket scaffold by climbing over the parapet wall and dropping onto the scaffold platform. One of the bracket frames broke at the 90-degree mitre weld, and the scaffold platform collapsed. Employee #1 fell, a fall height of approximately 14 feet. Emergency services transported the employee to the hospital, where he was admitted and treated for injuries that included fractures to the arm and pelvis.

Keywords: Arm, Carpenter, Elevated Work Platform, Equipment Failure, Fall, Fall Protection, Fracture, Framing, Multiemployer, Pelvis, Residential Construction, Roof, Scaffold, Structural Collapse

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Multi-family dwelling		New project or new addition			2	20

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1386082.015	41	M	Hospitalized injury		Carpenters	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Exterior carpentry Fatality Cause:

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