OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14379937
GUARDRAIL,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,WELDING,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,MIDRAIL,LOST BALANCE,SCAFFOLDING
Event description
Employee killed in fall from scaffolding
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was welding at the 45 foot level of a storage tank that was being er ected. When he turned to get out of the way of a steel beam that was being set i n place by a crane, he lost his balance. Employee #1 fell between a rope that wa s being used as a toprail and the scaffold planks. He was killed. The scaffoldin g was not equipped with a midrail or toeboards.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 43 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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