OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14498190
LOZANO BUILDING SERVICES
BEAUMONT, TX·
Event description
Employee killed in fall when ladder tips over scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, the owner, set a portable ladder atop a two-story high scaffold out side the Beaumont Enterprise building. When he reached the top of the ladder, it tipped over the scaffold and Employee #1 was left clinging by his fingertips to the thin, sloped concrete ledge outside the third floor. He hung on for approxi mately 4 minutes before falling about 36 feet to the concrete pavement. He was k illed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 55 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 25
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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