Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 94131.015 - Employee is injured in fall when scaffold platform fails.

Accident Summary Nr: 94131.015 -- Report ID: 0751910 -- Event Date: 03/13/2017
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1219172.015	03/20/2017		238140	Seedorff Masonry, Inc

Abstract: At approximately 8:15 a.m. on March 13, 2017, an employee was setting a 6 foot long steel lintel in place while working from tubular welded steel scaffold set up with a mason's cantilevered work platform. One of the scaffold brackets or modified "corner outrigger baskets" failed or came loose and the foot plank gave way resulting in the employee's falling 11 feet to the ground. The employee suffered a fractured vertebrae, lacerations, contusions, sprains and strained muscles for which he was hospitalized.

Keywords: Contusion, Fall, Fracture, Laceration, Scaffold, Sprain, Vertebra, Work Platform

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		New project or new addition		$1,000,000 to $5,000,000	2

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1219172.015	37	M	Non Hospitalized injury		Distance of Fall: 11 feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 11 feet Cause: Exterior masonry Fatality Cause:
2	1219172.015	53	M	Non Hospitalized injury	Brickmasons and stonemasons apprentices	Distance of Fall: 11 feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 11 feet Cause: Exterior masonry Fatality Cause:
3	1219172.015	23	M	Hospitalized injury	Construction laborers	Distance of Fall: 11 feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 11 feet Cause: Exterior masonry Fatality Cause:
4	1219172.015	42	M	Non Hospitalized injury	Brickmasons and stonemasons	Distance of Fall: 11 feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 11 feet Cause: Exterior masonry Fatality Cause:

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