OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14456768
HARV & HIGAM MASONRY INC
MIDVALE, UT—
Event description
Employee breaks ankle in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was helping to remove the crossbraces at the 14 ft level of a Morgan masonry scaffold so the scaffold platform could be raised. As he was removing a crossbrace section, the scaffold leaned sideways. Employee #1 jumped clear of t he falling scaffold and broke his ankle when he struck the ground.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 20 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 11
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 869
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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