OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14454797
RON ELBERT CONSTRUCTION
WHITTEMORE, IA·
Event description
Employee dies in 30 ft fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was atop a scaffold, finishing a break of coffee and bread. As he wa s getting up to return to work, he fell 30 ft through the scaffold's guardrails and landed, head first, on a concrete surface. The back of his head was so sever ely damaged that an autopsy could not determine whether Employee #1 had suffered a stroke.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 61 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 31
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 869
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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