OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14511711
B & B MASONRY
SAN ANTONIO, TX·
Event description
Employee killed in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was helping to dismantle a scaffold. He was standing on the walking surface at the top of the fourth 6-foot-section jack. Employee # 1 removed a flo or board, and put it down where it did not overlap another board. He then he saw a coworker untying a section that was secured to another scaffold. Employee #1 grabbed the section of scaffold, turned around, and stepped on the board that he had removed and set down. The board shifted and he fell 24 ft. Employee #1 was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 18 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 564
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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