Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 822700 - Employees injured when scaffold overturned

Accident Summary Nr: 822700 -- Report ID: 0352420 -- Event Date: 10/07/1988
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
108409475	01/07/1989	1742	0	Krafft-Murphy Company

Abstract: Employees #1 and #2 were working 9 ft 6 in. above a concrete floor from an outrigger platform that was attached to a mobile scaffold. An outrigger was not attached to the opposite side of the mobile scaffold. A coworker was pushing the mobile scaffold with the two employees on the outrigger. The wheels of the scaffold hit an extension cord that was running across the floor and the scaffold overturned, throwing Employees #1 and #2 to the floor. Both were hospitalized.

Keywords: MOBILE SCAFFOLD, OUTRIGGER, CARPENTER, WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, RIDING ON EQUIPMENT, FALL, OVERTURN

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	108409475			Hospitalized injury	Concussion	Carpenters
2	108409475			Hospitalized injury	Bruise/Contus/Abras	Carpenters

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