OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14460133
COOLBAUGH PLASTERING CO
OCEAN CITY, MD—
Event description
Employee's foot fractured in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was plastering concrete support girders under a building while stand ing on a section of tubular welded frame scaffold placed atop the body of a van- type truck. The top of the truck body was 9 ft 10 in. above the ground, and the scaffold section was 4 ft 6 in. high, for a total height of 14 ft 4 in. The unde rside of the building in the work area was approximately 20 ft above a concrete pad. Employee #1 was moving a wooden plank from the scaffold when the plank twis ted and fell. Employee #1 did not let go of the plank and also fell, fracturing two bones in his foot. The foreman at the site stated that the scaffold was equi pped with a standard railing.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 29 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 11
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 56
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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