Inspection Detail

Inspection: 105723902 - Mersing Carpentry, Inc.

Inspection Information - Office: Va-E-Manassas (Regional Office)- Safety 0355114

Inspection Nr: 105723902

Report ID: 0355114

Date Opened: 01/15/1991

Site Address:
Mersing Carpentry, Inc.
2113 Polo Pointe Drive
Vienna, VA 22181

Mailing Address:
15208 Illinois Road, Woodbridge, VA 22191

Union Status: NonUnion

SIC:1751

NAICS: 0

Inspection Type: Accident

Scope: Partial

Advanced Notice: N

Ownership: Private

Safety/Health: Safety

Close Conference: 01/15/1991

Planning Guide: Safety-Construction

Emphasis: L:Scaffold

Case Closed: 10/25/1991

Related Activity
Type	Activity Nr	Safety	Health
Accident	360305684

Violation Summary
Violations/Penalties	Serious	Willful	Repeat	Other	Unclass	Total
Initial Violations	2			2		4
Current Violations	2			2		4
Initial Penalty	$560	$0	$0	$0	$0	$560
Current Penalty	$560	$0	$0	$0	$0	$560
FTA Penalty	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0

Violation Items
#	Citation ID	Citaton Type	Standard Cited	Issuance Date	Abatement Due Date	Current Penalty	Initial Penalty	FTA Penalty	Latest Event
1.	01001A	Serious	19260451 G01	04/30/1991	05/04/1991	$280	$280	$0	-
2.	01001B	Serious	19260451 G03	04/30/1991	05/04/1991	$0	$0	$0	-
3.	01001C	Serious	19260451 G04	04/30/1991	05/04/1991	$0	$0	$0	-
4.	01002	Serious	19260451 G05	04/30/1991	05/04/1991	$280	$280	$0	-
5.	02001	Other	ARM001103 A	04/30/1991	05/04/1991	$0	$0	$0	-
6.	02002	Other	19260050 D01	04/30/1991	05/04/1991	$0	$0	$0	-

Investigation Summary

Investigation Nr: 14294813

Event: 04/14/1991

Employee injured in fall from job-made scaffold

At approximately 2:30 p.m. on January 14, 1991, Employee #1 had been working for about two hours installing an office cornice. He was on a scaffold at the southwestern side of a two-story, single-family house under construction. The plank on which he was standing overlapped the end of another plank at a 90 degree angle near the southern corner of the house. When Employee #1 arrived at that corner, the overlapped plank running along the southeastern side of the house pulled loose from where it was nailed at its northeastern end. Both planks tilted toward the corner, causing Employee #1 to fall approximately 23 ft to the ground. He sustained a concussion and a fractured left wrist. The main causal factor appears to have been that the planking was not adequately secured to the outrigger beams as required. The employee had built the scaffold himself.

Keywords: PLANKING, FRACTURE, UNSECURED, WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, FALL, CONCUSSION, SCAFFOLD, WRIST

Investigated Inspection
#	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	105723902			Hospitalized injury	Concussion	Supervisors; carpenters and related workers

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