OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14507479
ANDERSONS EXCAVATING & WRECKING CO.
DENVER, CO·
Event description
Employee killed in 18 ft fall from homemade work platform
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was cutting metal sections from a bridge that was being dismantled. He was positioned on a homemade work platform suspended 18 feet next to the end of the bridge. Employee #1 improperly attached the 5/8 inch wire rope to the sha ckle; when he brought cutting equipment onto the work platform, the extra weight caused the wire rope to slip through the shackle. Employee #1 and the work plat form fell 18 feet onto concrete and metal scrap at the base of the bridge column s. Employee #1 was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 5
- Task assigned
- 1
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