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Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA

Accident: 123091.015 - Employee Falls From Rolling Scaffold, Receives Skull And Ver

**Accident: 123091.015 -- Report ID: 0950632 -- Event Date: 07/20/2019**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1419750.015	08/01/2019		M S C Commercial And Residental Metal Stud Framing Drywall Tape Texture Inc

At 1:10 p.m. on July 20, 2019, an employee worked from a rolling "Perry" scaffol d (twenty-nine inches wide by six-foot long by six-foot high) to apply drywall r epair putty to cover nails around a nine-foot-high window. At some point, the em ployee stepped backward and fell approximately six feet from the scaffold. The e mployee was hospitalized to treat fractures to the back of the skull and vertebr ae.

Keywords: drywall, fall, fall from elevation, fracture, mobile scaffold, scaffold, skull, vertebra, walking backward

Accident Details
End Use		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
Commercial building		Alteration or rehabilitation			2

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation	Construction
1	1419750.015	22	M	Hospitalized injury		Drywall installers	FallDist: 6 FallHt:6 Cause: Installing interior walls, ceilings, doors FatCause:

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