OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14493613
1ST NATIONAL BANK AT LUBBOCK
LUBBOCK, TX·
Event description
Employee killed in 23 ft fall with mobile scaffold
Investigation abstract
At approximately 8:45 a.m. on or about January 25, 1989, Employee #1 and a cowor proximately 23 ft onto the concrete, suffering fatal head injuries. No outrigger s were being used. ker were changing light bulbs outside a building. They used an air-operated scaf fold to reach the light bulbs, which were approximately 26 ft above the ground. Employee #1 climbed to the 30 in. by 39 in. scaffold platform and operated the u p-lift mechanism with his foot, rising approximately 20 to 23 ft. He changed one bulb and then the coworker pushed the scaffold (with Employee #1 on it) approxi mately 10 ft to the next light. After Employee #1 changed that bulb, he instruct ed the coworker to turn the scaffold for the next light. As the coworker started to turn the scaffold, it tilted off balance and overturned. Employee #1 fell ap
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 45 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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