OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14421416
WINDOW WASHER,UNSECURED,SCAFFOLD COLLAPSE,FALL,FALL PROTECTION
Event description
Employee dies in fall with dislodged scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee was washing windows from a boatswains chair. The weights holding the ba ck of the roll-along scaffold dislodged from the scaffold, allowing the scaffold to tip over the edge of the building. Employee #1 and the scaffold dropped to t he ground. Employee #1 died.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 33 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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