Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200770188 - Employee injured in fall when scaffold plank slips off

Accident Summary Nr: 200770188 -- Report ID: 0134000 -- Event Date: 04/16/1998
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
122121718	04/17/1998	1741	0	D'Agostino Associates, Inc.

Abstract: On April 16, 1998, Employee #1, of D'Agostino Associates, Inc., was using a scaffold to grout the interior walls of an elevator shaft. He was standing on a platform board when the board slipped off the supporting frame member. Employee #1 fell 30 to 32 ft down the elevator shaft before he managed to grab onto a crossmember with his arm and landed on another planked section. The boards on which he was standing lacked the sufficient 6 in. to 12 in. overlap on the staging. From walking back and forth, the board on which Employee #1 was standing had worked itself off the supporting frame member of the staging.

Keywords: UNSECURED, WORK RULES, WALKING ON PLANK, CONSTRUCTION, PLANK, FALL, ELEVATED WORK PLAT, ELEVATOR SHAFT, SCAFFOLD, UNSTABLE POSITION

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		New project or new addition		$1,000,000 to $5,000,000	4	75

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	122121718			Hospitalized injury	Bruise/Contus/Abras	Brickmasons and stonemasons	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 50 feet Cause: Interior masonry Fatality Cause: Fall from/with scaffold

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