OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14251490
BYRD & GOFF CONSTRUCTION CO., INC.
GREENSBORO, NC·
Event description
Employee killed in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and a coworker were erecting and decking a tubular welded frame scaf fold on a job site. The 35 ft long by 5 ft wide by 33 ft high scaffold was prope rly braced, was tied-off to the building, and was sitting on a firm and substant ial base. A crane had just deposited decking for the scaffold onto the frame. Em ployee #1 climbed onto the scaffold and was pulling a piece of the decking acros s the walkboards when he mis-stepped, fell 33 ft over the side of the scaffold t o the ground, and was killed. Guardrails were not in place because the scaffold was being erected.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 49 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 563
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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