Precision Walls, Inc.: OSHA inspections and violations

Incident on Jul 25, 2011: Employee is injured in stairway fall

On July 25, 2011, an employee, of Precision Walls, Inc., Charlotte, NC, was work ing on a building construction site. He was walking in a stairway from the third floor down to the second floor. He fell down 14 concrete stairs to the landing below. The employee was transported to Carolinas Medical Center (CMC Main), wher e he was treated for bruises/contusions/abrasions and was released the same day. The employee told a doctor that he experienced a leg cramp before he fell.

Incident on Sep 27, 1988: Three employees injured in scaffold collapse

Employees #1 and #2 were working on top of a tubular welded frame manually-prope lled mobile scaffold installing metal studs as a part of drywall installation. E mployee #1 was using a power activated tool to install the studs and Employee #2 was handling the drywall. During this time, the scaffold had been adequately br aced and had railings, toeboards, and locked casters. The employees had worked a bout two thirds of the way around the room. They had not moved the scaffold whil e on the platform, but had first descended, unlocked the casters, and then moved the scaffold. For an undetermined reason, while the employees were working from the scaffold, the scaffold began to fall away from the wall toward the center o f the room. Employee #1 rode the scaffold to the floor and fractured his pelvis and dislocated his hip when he landed on the concrete floor. When it had tilted far enough, the scaffold racked together and the platform boards come loose. Emp loyee #2, detecting that the scaffold was collapsing from underneath him, grabbe d a beam on the ceiling and hung onto the beam until he became tired, then dropp ed to the concrete floor, breaking his foot. Employee #3, who was working in the area, saw the scaffold falling and tried to hold it up but was caught under the scaffold as it fell. The metal parts of the scaffold cut his arm.