Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 899674 - Employee cuts arm in fall from scaffold

Accident Summary Nr: 899674 -- Report ID: 0355114 -- Event Date: 08/04/1993
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
123679102	08/04/1993	1741	0	Masonry Design, Inc.

Abstract: At approximately 9:10 a.m. on August 4, 1993, Employee #1 was laying brick on the front facade of a townhouse in Ashburn, VA. Employee #1 was standing on the platform of an outrigger scaffold attached to a metal tube scaffold. This outrigger scaffold was 19.5 feet high and did not have guardrails in place. Employee #1 stepped back too far and fell to the top of a bay window in the next townhouse, then fell through the metal tube scaffolding to the ground. Employee #1 was taken to Loudoun Hospital where he was x-rayed and found to have suffered a cut on his right upper arm.

Keywords: GUARDRAIL, CONSTRUCTION, BRICK, LACERATION, FALL, FALL PROTECTION, ARM, ELEVATED WORK PLAT, INATTENTION

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	123679102			Non Hospitalized injury	Cut/Laceration	Occupation not reported

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