OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14462832
CROWN UNION
DRAKESBORO, KY·
Event description
One employee killed, two injured when knocked off scaffold
Investigation abstract
At approximately 12:00 noon on November 29, 1985, Employees #1 through #3 and tw fold. Employee #1 fell 38 ft and was killed. Employees #2 and #3 were hospitaliz ed. o coworkers were working from a multiple-point suspension scaffold at a height o f approximately 38 ft inside a smokestack. The 26 ft diameter wooden scaffold wa s suspended by 10 wire ropes connected to I-beams spanning the opening of the sm okestack. As they built the scaffold deck, the employees were using a hoist to s lightly elevate one side of the scaffold to level and properly align the scaffol d members. The materials hoist was supported by a wooden cathead arrangement at the top of the stack. The cathead hoist was overloaded and came crashing down 55 0 ft onto the scaffold. The impact knocked Employees #1 through #3 from the scaf
Victims (3)
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#1 Fatality Age 29 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 2
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#2 Hospitalized Age 27 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 569
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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#3 Hospitalized Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 9
- Part of body
- 21
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 2
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