Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 202449427 - Employee Injures Back in Fall from Scaffold

Accident Summary Nr: 202449427 -- Report ID: 0950633 -- Event Date: 06/09/2008
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
310603469	06/30/2008	1622	237990	Shimmick Obayashi Construction

Abstract: At 7:00 a.m. on June 9, 2008, Employee #1, a finishing employee, fell from an Aluma-system, "Safway" tower scaffold. Employee #1 had worked as a cement mason/finisher for 5 months. The employer is in the business of heavy construction of highways and water treatment plants. Two crews (finishing and stripping crews) were working in Cell #4, located in contactor building "B" of the water treatment plant. A stripping crew was working in Cell #4A while at the same time a finishing crew was working in the adjoining Cell #4B. Between them was a baffle wall having three windows (openings) at a height of about 30 feet above the concrete floor. Employee #1 of the finishing crew went up a 24-foot high tower scaffold platform and received some tools in a bucket via a rope. As Employee #1 was getting ready to receive some more material, he was struck by a super stud (metal beam) which landed on the middle opening when a stripping crew employee in cell #4A knocked the metal beam to remove the wooden forms from the ceiling. Employee #1 fell 24 feet down (through a gap between the top railing and the platform) to the floor, sustaining serious injuries of his lower back and a fracture of his right foot. Employee #1 was hospitalized.

Keywords: CONCRETE FORM WORK, FRACTURE, METAL RAIL, BACK, FALL, STRUCK BY, FOOT, SCAFFOLD

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Sewer/water treatment plant		New project or new addition		$1,000,000 to $5,000,000	1	32

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	310603469			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Brickmasons and stonemasons apprentices	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 24 feet Cause: Interior masonry Fatality Cause: Fall from/with scaffold

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