OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14455414
INDUSTRIAL POWER CONTRACTORS
CASTLE DALE, UT·
Event description
Employee killed in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, of Industrial Power Contractors, was on a suspended scaffold, 50 ft cut into 5 ft long sections with a hand-held mortar saw and lowered to ground le vel through a removable section of the scaffold floor. A section of metal pipe s truck a needle beam, causing it to fracture. Employee #1 fell and was killed. He was not wearing fall protection, although safety belts were available, and the scaffold was not protected by guardrails. A representative of the employer state d that employees had a responsibility to protect themselves and that management could not ensure that employees continuously followed safe practices. above ground level, in scrubber tower #2-1 of the Hunter power plant of Utah Po wer and Light. The scaffold was suspended by 1/2 in. wire rope. The upper end of the wire rope was wrapped over steel I-beams and secured with clamps. The lower end was double wrapped around needle beams, each made of two 12 ft lengths of 2 by 6 fir boards nailed together, and was secured with clamps. The scaffold cons isted of 2 by 12 planks spaced approximately 12 in. apart, with 2 ft by 8 ft sec tions of 1/2 in. plywood laid over the planks. Employee #1 was removing metal pi pe from the tower. The pipe was secured by wire rope to an overhead winch, then
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 37 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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