OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14443659
HEAD,GUARDRAIL,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,OFF LOADING,UNGUARDED,SCAFFOLD
Event description
Employee killed in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was on the platform of a metal tube scaffold off loading 12 inch cin der blocks from a material loader (Highlander type). The platform was not servic ed by standard guardrails and/or toe boards for its entire length of 88 feet. Em ployee #1 fell from the unguarded platform to the concrete floor, sustained head and other bodily injuries, and died.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 18 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 869
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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