OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14399596
OLSON CONSTRUCTION COMPANY INC
SHERMAN, TX·
Event description
Employee killed in fall from joist on scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was standing on an aluminum joist that had been placed on steel I-be ams erected on a tubular scaffold inside a 100 ft diameter concrete wastewater t reatment tank. A joist had not yet been placed on one side. He lost his balance and fell 35 feet off that side to the concrete floor of the tank. He was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 24 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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