OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14486492
ROPE,CONSTRUCTION,TWO PT SUSP SCAFFOLD,FALL,LOST CONTROL
Event description
Employee killed in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was positioning a two point suspension scaffold with the help of a c oworker, who was at the other end of the scaffold. Employee #1 apparently lost c ontrol of the rope, the scaffold tilted, and he fell from the fourth floor to th e street. He died. The coworker, who grabbed the rope and lowered himself to the street, was uninjured.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 27 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 593
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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