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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 NrDate OpenedSICNAICSEstablishment Name
1454940.01501/10/2020236220Stockham 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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