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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14399596

WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,LOST BALANCE,TUBULAR SCAFFOLD,UNSTABLE POSITION

Event
WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,LOST BALANCE,TUBULAR SCAFFOLD,UNSTABLE POSITION
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
14399596
Report ID
626300

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

  1. #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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