OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14399182
KEILER MASONRY INC
DALLAS, TX—
Event description
Construction worker fractures leg when scaffold falls
Investigation abstract
On September 17, 1984, Employee #1, age 19, and three coworkers were on a tubula two coworkers were attended to and sent home to recuperate. r welded scaffold placing brick on a fireplace chimney rim. When the scaffold be gan to fall backward, Employee #1 and a coworker rode the scaffold down and cras hed into an adjacent apartment building, 32 ft behind the fireplace where they h ad been working. Employee #1 suffered a severely broken leg and was hospitalized for two to three weeks; the coworker broke his heel. The second coworker jumped onto the building to which the chimney was attached, and the third jumped 22 ft off the side and hit a portion of the scaffold peg on the way down. He sustaine d a severely lacerated lip, a cut forehead, and two to three broken teeth. These
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 19 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 16
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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