Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 124627.015 - Employee fractures wrists in fall from rolling scaffold

Accident Summary Nr: 124627.015 -- Report ID: 0950611 -- Event Date: 01/02/2020
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1454940.015	01/10/2020		236220	Stockham Construction, Inc

Abstract: At 6:15 a.m. on January 2, 2020, an employee was installing sheetrock in a bathroom. The employee was standing on a 3-foot-high platform on a Nu-Wave folding-type rolling scaffold. The employee was standing 3 feet above the ground on the platform of a folding rolling scaffold to secure the sheetrock onto a wall. He was standing on a 9-inch single plank that was on a 24-inch width scaffold frame. The scaffold had defective brakes on two of the four casters. As he was operating his screw gun by pushing onto the drywall screw, he fell and fractured both wrists. The employee was hospitalized.

Keywords: Brake, Construction, Defective, Defective Equipment, Electric Screw Gun, Fracture, Rolling, Scaffold, Sheetrock, Wrist

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
		New project or new addition

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1454940.015	49	M	Hospitalized injury		Construction Laborer

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