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Accident Summary Nr: 202554101 - Plasterer Is Injured in Fall from Scaffold

Accident Summary Nr: 202554101 -- Report ID: 0950631 -- Event Date: 09/19/2011
Inspection NrDate OpenedSICNAICSEstablishment Name
31552597209/19/20111542236220Mtr Construction Inc

Abstract: On September 19, 2011, an employee was preparing a building for exterior stuccoing, as directed by his employer, Mtr Construction, Inc., a general contractor. The employee, an experienced plasterer, was working on a second-level scaffold platform to add paper before the stucco process was to begin. He fell. There were no witnesses to the fall. At 12:50 p.m. on the day of the accident, the employer notified OSHA that an employee suffered serious injury in a fall earlier in the day. Due to the location of the employee's body, the investigators presumed that he fell from the inside edge of the scaffold platform, which had no railings as protection from falling due to window openings on the building. The employee apparently struck his head on the concrete 14 feet below. The employee was hospitalized with unspecified fractures.

Keywords: PLATFORM, FRACTURE, BUILDING, RAIL, STRUCK AGAINST, CONSTRUCTION, FALL, FALL PROTECTION, 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

Employee Details
Employee # Inspection Nr Age Sex Degree of Injury Nature of Injury Occupation Construction
1 315525972 Hospitalized injury Fracture Plasterers Distance of Fall: feet
Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 14 feet
Cause: Exterior masonry
Fatality Cause: Fall from/with scaffold

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