OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14456313
HARV & HIGAM MASONRY INC
SPRINGVILLE, UT—
Event description
Employee injured in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was on a Morgan scaffold, stocking pallets of blocks and cutting the metal bands that secured the blocks to the pallets. One of the 16 ft long scaff old planks worked free of its support arm and Employee #1 fell approximately 24 ft to the concrete floor. The scaffold was set up according to requirements and the plank had about 6 in. of clearing on the supports; somehow it worked free du ring normal use.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 18 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 563
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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