Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Brace Integrated Services, Inc., 8127 Oak Grove Blvd, FRANKLIN, TEXAS 77856
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the head, unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was receiving scaffold materials up to the 21st floor via an engineered opening in the scaffold flooring. The employee fell approximately 14 feet through a gap in the scaffold flooring. The employee struck his head in the fall and was hospitalized. The employee was not tied off at the time.
On May 4, 2018, an employee started to build a scaffold when the vertical scaffold leg fell and hit the cross braces. The employee's left ring finger was caught between the cross braces and the vertical scaffold leg. His left ring fingertip was amputated (no bone loss).
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