Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 908699 - Painter injured in fall from makeshift work platform

Accident Summary Nr: 908699 -- Report ID: 0454510 -- Event Date: 01/07/1995
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
124677808	01/11/1995	1721	0	T. J. Palmer & Co., Inc.

Abstract: Employee #1, a painter, was assigned to paint the ceiling and bar joists of an industrial manufacturing plant. He set up a makeshift platform by leaning an extension ladder against the wall, extending an A-frame ladder approximately 20 ft away, and placing a 12 in. wide aluminum walkboard on the rungs of each ladder at about 23 ft high. When the painter was on the walkboard platform, the A-frame ladder shifted, and the walkboard and Employee #1 fell to the concrete floor. Employee #1 suffered multiple bruises.

Keywords: UNSECURED, WORK RULES, LADDER, WALK PLATFORM, CONSTRUCTION, FALL, ELEVATED WORK PLAT, PAINTER, CONTUSION

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	124677808			Non Hospitalized injury	Bruise/Contus/Abras	Painters, construction and maintenance

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