OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14457162
NEFF & JENSEN CONSTRUCTION CO
WEST JORDAN, UT—
Event description
Employee injured in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
At approximately 1:30 p.m. on December 26, 1984, Employee #1 was building a work platform on a 16 ft high by 30 ft long scaffold. He had put two 14 ft long 2 by 2 planks on the scaffold. Employee #1 thought that the planks were secured to a ll three scaffold frames, but they were actually secured to only two of the fram es and were 1 in. from the third frame. He then picked up another plank to finis h the platform and was walking along one of the installed planks when he came to the end that was not secured. The plank went down, and Employee #1 fell 16 ft o nto concrete, spraining his left wrist and bruising his left shoulder. His fall was cushioned by 4 in. of snow covering the concrete.
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 20
- Part of body
- 24
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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