Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 170869416 - Employee injured in fall from scaffold when midrail fails

Accident Summary Nr: 170869416 -- Report ID: 0950621 -- Event Date: 08/01/2000
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
125695692	08/02/2000	1742	0	Rick H. Hitch Plastering, Inc.

Abstract: At approximately 1:30 p.m. on August 1, 2000, Employee #1, a plasterer, was climbing a metal frame scaffolding to the third level work platform to begin plastering the walls of a retail building. When he reached the third level, he grabbed the middle guardrail. As Employee #1 leaned or pushed forward, the midrail came loose and he fell backward 18 ft 6 in. to the ground. He sustained a head laceration and a fractured scapula and was taken by ambulance to U.C. Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, where he was treated and released the following morning. The locking lug holding on the guardrail had become jammed in an open position from accumulated paint and plaster.

Keywords: FRACTURE, GUARDRAIL, UNSECURED, WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, EQUIPMENT FAILURE, JAMMED, MIDRAIL, HOUSEKEEPING, SCAFFOLD

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		New project or new addition		$50,000 to $250,000	2

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	125695692			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Plasterers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 15 feet Cause: Plastering Fatality Cause: Fall from/with scaffold

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