OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #735860
MARTIN AND MCDONALD CO. INC.
LOUISVILLE, KY—
Event description
Employee injured in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and coworkers were using a coupler scaffold. They placed a plank fro m the scaffold to the roof of the Kaster Building so that they could reach a two point suspension scaffold. Employee #1 fell either from the plank or a ladder. He was hospitalized with back injuries.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 40 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 563
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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