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Accident: 201201878 - Employee Injured In Fall From Scaffold

Accident: 201201878 -- Report ID: 1054114 -- Event Date: 11/21/2002
InspectionOpen DateSICEstablishment Name
30573537511/25/20023716Country Coach Inc
On November 21, 2002, Employee #1 was working on a 5-ft scaffold taping off the top edge of a motor coach. While side stepping along the scaffold and taping the coach, Employee #1 tripped and fell against the coach, which in turn moved the rolling scaffold, creating a gap. Employee #1 then fell between the coach and the scaffold, landing on his side on the metal wheel arm and concrete floor. He sustained four fractured vertebrae, five fractured ribs, and a fracture of the right shoulder. Employee #1 was hospitalized.
Keywords: fracture, shoulder, tripped, rib, fall, vertebra, scaffold
Employee # Inspection Age Sex Degree Nature Occupation
1 305735375 Hospitalized injury Fracture Painters, sculptors, craft-artists & printmakers

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