OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #670018
BARTH ELECTRIC CO INC
INDIANAPOLIS, IN—
Event description
Employee sustains brain damage in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
On April 22, 1985, Employee #1 was hanging light fixtures in a building from a 2 se the cage was bent and warped. ft by 2 ft wide, 10 ft high platform on a High-Horse manually-propelled mobile scaffold, model XK-1, serial #73127, company #A-349. He and a coworker had been working at this task for about four days. Employee #1 had worked from the scaffo ld for two of these days. At approximately 4:00 p.m., Employee #1 fell from the platform to a concrete floor, landing on his head. He sustained serious head inj uries and brain damage. Employee #1 was transported to Methodist Hospital and is now in the Hooks Rehabilitation Center at Community Hospital. One of the two pi ns (spring leaded) that secure the cage (guardrail) to the platform failed becau
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 60 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 575
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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