Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200021350 - Employee injured in fall from scaffold platform

Accident Summary Nr: 200021350 -- Report ID: 0214200 -- Event Date: 03/19/1999
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
302133293	05/25/1999	1741	0	Dynamic Construction

Abstract: Employee #1 was laying bricks from a platform in the middle of an outrigger to a tubular welded-frame scaffold. He was carrying a pail half-filled with cement from the outrigger scaffold, through the crossbraces, and onto the main scaffold platform when he lost his balance and fell onto the main planking platform. The momentum of his fall carried him over the edge of the scaffold and he dropped 35 ft to the ground. Employee #1 sustained multiple fractures, for which he was hospitalized,

Keywords: FRACTURE, WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, FALL, FALL PROTECTION, ELEVATED WORK PLAT, LOST BALANCE, WORK PLATFORM, SCAFFOLD, TUBULAR SCAFFOLD

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Single family or duplex dwelling		New project or new addition		$5,000,000 to $20,000,000	2	35

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	302133293			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Occupation not reported	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 35 feet Cause: Interior masonry Fatality Cause: Fall from/with scaffold

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