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Inspection: 1624033.015 - 7&7 Masonry Company Llc

Inspection Information - Office: Atlanta West

Investigation Summary

At 3: 15 p.m. on September 21, 2022, an employee, a masonry worker, was installing concrete blocks from a fabricated frame scaffold equipped with bracket supported working platforms on the side of the scaffold nearest the block wall. The employee was standing on the working platform, decked by two 9 inch wide by 11 foot long wooden boards located approximately two feet above the first buck decking and less than 10 feet above the ground level, when he fell backward onto the first buck decking. The employee was transported to the hospital and while undergoing CT imaging, he became unresponsive and died. The employee's injuries included an open fracture to the radius of his right arm, three fractured vertebrae, and internal organ injuries including lacerations to the spleen, liver, left cardiac ventricle and left, anterior descending coronary

Keywords:arm, back, blunt force, blunt force trauma, fall, fall from elevation, fracture, heart, internal injuries, liver, masonry, masonry wall, scaffold, scaffold fabricated onsite, scaffolding, spleen, unresponsive, vertebr