Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 116965.015 - Employee fractures back after fall from scaffold within tank

Accident Summary Nr: 116965.015 -- Report ID: 0627510 -- Event Date: 06/05/2019
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1406973.015	06/07/2019		333132	Endeavor Energy Resources, Lp

Abstract: At 7:45 a.m. on June 5, 2019, an employee was using Black Beauty blasting media while spray blasting inside a 1,000 barrel tank that had been recently fabricated at the facility. To employee was standing on a 10 foot Metaltech Mobile Scaffold to reach elevated areas within the tank when the entire scaffold fell backwards with the employee on it. The employee fell to the iron floor and fractured his vertebrae, requiring hospitalation.

Keywords: Abrasive Blasting, Back, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Confined Space, Elevated Work Plat, Elevated Work Platform, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Falling Object, Fracture, Iron, Mobile Scaffold, Respirator, Sandblasting, Scaffold, Scaffolding, Tank, Unstable Position, Unstable Surface, Vertebra, Walking Surface, Work Surface

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury
1	1406973.015	34	M	Hospitalized injury

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