OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14498430
ERECTION PROCESS,WORK RULES,SAFETY BELT,CONSTRUCTION,DESCENDING,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,LOST BALANCE
Event description
Employee killed in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
A crew of carpenters was building a scaffold that had five 6 ft 6 in. high level s. Employee #1 reached for some #9 wire on the level above him to tie down the p lanking. When he couldn't reach the wire, he untied his safety belt to get it. A s he was coming down, he lost his footing and fell. Employee #1 was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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