Accident Report Detail
Accident: 14254130 - Employee Injured In Fall When Scaffold Board Breaks
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name |
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15280779 | 01/23/1987 | 1611 | Weiss Brothers Construction Co. Inc. |
Employee #1 had been assigned to torque and inspect the connecting bolts on a bridge cap. A coworker had also been assigned to help him with the torque wrench. Both employees were standing on an unsound scaffold board, which it broke. The coworker grabbed a bridge brace, arresting his fall, but Employee #1 fell 16 ft to a concrete slope, landing feet first. He sustained fractured vertebrae, for which he was hospitalized. Neither employee was wearing a safety belt with lanyard.
Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation |
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1 | 15280779 | Hospitalized injury | Fracture | Carpenters |