OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14563563

BOLTON CORPORATION

RALEIGH, NC— 1985-04-10T00:00:00

Event: BOARD, HEAD, UNSECURED, WORK RULES, WALK PLATFORM, CONSTRUCTION, FALL, FALL PROTECTION, ELEVATED WORK PLAT, SCAFFOLD
NAICS: 000000
Inspection type: Accident-driven
Activity number: #15287410
Employer profile: BOLTON CORPORATION
Summary number: 14563563
Report ID: 453710

Event description

Employee's head injured in 10 ft fall from scaffold

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was standing on a 10 ft high scaffold watching a coworker use a chip ping hammer that he had just been using. An 18 in. walkboard slipped, sliding 12 in. away from the other walkboard. Employee #1's leg fell into the opening and while trying to hold on, he fell off the end of the scaffold, landing on the con crete floor. Employee #1 was hospitalized with head injuries.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 35 M

Nature of injury
12

Part of body
13

Event type
5

Source
42

Occupation code
585

Human factor
6

Environmental factor
13

Task assigned
1

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