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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14400071

GUARDRAIL,WORK RULES,CLEANING,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,TUBULAR SCAFFOLD

Event
GUARDRAIL,WORK RULES,CLEANING,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,TUBULAR SCAFFOLD
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
14400071
Report ID
626300

Event description

Employee killed in fall from scaffold

Investigation abstract

Employee #1, a laborer with Forum Masonry Company, Inc., and four coworkers, inc luding a foreman, were on the fifth level of an unguarded tubular welded frame s caffold, preparing to wash down the brick wall of a three-story office building under construction in De Soto, TX. Employee #1 fell and was killed. It had begun to rain while the workers were on the scaffold.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 18 M

    Nature of injury
    9
    Part of body
    4
    Event type
    5
    Source
    42
    Occupation code
    999
    Human factor
    9
    Environmental factor
    17
    Task assigned
    1

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