Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14312060

MEKLIN BUILDERS, INC.

Event
HEAD, GUARDRAIL, WORK RULES, LADDER, CONSTRUCTION, FALL, FALL PROTECTION, TUBULAR SCAFFOLD
NAICS
000000
Inspection type
Accident-driven
Activity number
#17779737
Employer profile
MEKLIN BUILDERS, INC.
Summary number
14312060
Report ID
213900

Event description

Employee killed in fall from scaffold

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was working from a 26-ft-high tubular welded scaffold that had been built four sections high. He was installing furring strips for cedar shake sidin g to the front of a brick building, using a powder-actuated fastener. He was at the top level of the scaffold when he fell and struck his head against the pavem ent. Employee #1 was killed. There were no guardrails, and no ladder been instal led for egress.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 23 M

    Nature of injury
    6
    Part of body
    13
    Event type
    5
    Source
    42
    Occupation code
    999
    Human factor
    6
    Environmental factor
    13
    Task assigned
    1

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