OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14429567
REBAR,CONSTRUCTION,EQUIPMENT FAILURE,FALL,TUBULAR SCAFFOLD
Event description
Employee killed in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was working from the outrigger portion of tubular welded steel scaff olding that was four frames high. He was attempting to bend a #6 reinforcing reb ar in another direction by hand when the rebar broke. Employee #1 was killed whe n he fell more than 19 feet to the ground.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 24 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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