OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14447015
AMENDOLA CONSTRUCTION
DULUTH, MN·
Event description
Employee dies in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
At approximately 3:15 p.m. on November 9, 1988, Employee #1 was attempting to re move an outrigger bracket and attached well wheel from the outside of a scaffold end frame while standing on an unguarded scaffold platform 39 ft above the grou nd. While detaching the apparatus, Employee #1 lost his balance and fell to the ground, landing on the front of his body. He was apparently killed upon impact.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 50 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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