OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14515415
HEAD,MOBILE SCAFFOLD,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,DESCENDING,FALL
Event description
Employee killed in fall while descending mobile scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was on the top platform of a mobile scaffold, vibrating freshly pour ed concrete. The 35 ft high scaffold was secured to a concrete column at four po ints by #9 tie wire. Because no ladder was available, Employee #1 began to climb down on the end panel braces. He fell off the scaffold, suffered massive head i njuries, and was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 49 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 25
- Occupation code
- 99
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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