OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14335558
BE&K CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
MOBILE, AL·
Event description
Employee dies after scaffold falls over
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a brick mason, was working on a tubular scaffold getting ready to l ay brick when a concrete truck chute caught the scaffold and pulled it over. The employee fell approximately 8 feet to a paved roadway and struck his head on th e pavement. He died four days later.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 68 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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