Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200821684 - Employee's Arm Is Fractured in Scaffold Platform Collapse

Accident Summary Nr: 200821684 -- Report ID: 0521400 -- Event Date: 07/26/2002
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
305155178	08/02/2002	1542	0	Sjostrom & Sons Inc.

Abstract: At approximately 2:30 p.m. on July 26, 2002, Employee #1 and two coworkers were dismantling a Morgan scaffold at a job site in Rockford, IL. Initially, all three were working from a 7-ft-high platform, but then the two coworkers descended, leaving Employee #1. The first coworker, who was the competent person at the site, went to remove the ladder that was leaning against the platform and the second coworker began to remove the last set of cross-braces at grade level. When he removed one of the connection points for the cross-braces, the scaffold platform collapsed and Employee #1 fell to the ground. He was hospitalized for a compound fracture of his right forearm. The cross-braces that the coworker was dismantling were the last stabilizing elements of the scaffold system. They should not have been removed until Employee #1 had reconnected the cross-braces at the platform level.

Keywords: FRACTURE, COLLAPSE, UNSECURED, WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, ARM, BRACING, ELEVATED WORK PLAT, COMMUNICATION, SCAFFOLD

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		New project or new addition		$500,000 to $1,000,000	2	35

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	305155178			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Occupation not reported	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Erecting structural steel Fatality Cause: Crushed/run-over/trapped of operator by operating

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