OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14511307
PLANKING,UNSECURED,WORK RULES,WALKING ON PLANK,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,ELEVATED WORK PLAT,SCAFFOLD
Event description
Employee killed in 50 ft fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and coworkers, who worked for a masonry company, were moving materia l from an access satellite elevated scaffold to the roof of a 6-story hotel unde r construction. Employee #1 was on a 20 in. wide plank walkway, 20 in. below the main platform of the scaffold, shoveling mud from the scaffold to a wheelbarrow on the roof. The planks moved and Employee #1 fell more than 50 ft to the groun d. He suffered multiple injuries and died shortly after arriving at the hospital . The planks were not overlapped at least 12 in., nor were they adequately secur ed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 31 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 2
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