OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14424089
HUNT CONCRETE COMPANY
WARRENTON, MO·
Event description
Employee dies in scaffold collapse
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was standing at about 17 feet on a tubular welded frame scaffold aro und the concrete formwork for a 2 ft by 2 ft by 24 ft column. As he directed the buckets of concrete into the form during the pour, the middle section of the co lumn formwork failed and the liquid concrete flowed out, causing severe outside lateral pressure on the formwork and the column. The scaffold could no longer st and and collapsed. Employee #1 died in the fall.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 53 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 20
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 12
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 3
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 2
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