OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14535736
WORK RULES,SAFETY BELT,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,FALLING OBJECT,SCAFFOLD
Event description
Employee killed in 250 ft fall from smokestack scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was working on a scaffold around the top of a 250 ft high smokestack , when a section of concrete that was being removed fell onto the scaffold. He w as knocked off, fell to the ground, and was killed. Employee #1 was not using hi s safety belt at the time of the accident.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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