OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14500052
WATER TOWER,STRUCK AGAINST,CONSTRUCTION,TWO PT SUSP SCAFFOLD,BRACE,FALL,SCAFFOLD
Event description
Employee killed in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was sandblasting a water tower in preparation for painting from a tw o-point suspension scaffold 75 feet above ground level. He fell backward off the scaffold and landed back-first on a crossbrace 16 feet above the ground. Employ ee #1 was killed. He remained at the crossbrace until removed by the rescue team .
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 31 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 579
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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