OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14542195

HEAD,WIRE ROPE,STRUCK AGAINST,CONSTRUCTION,EQUIPMENT FAILURE,SCAFFOLD RIGGING,SUSPENSION STRAND,SANDBLASTING,SCAFFOLD

1984-07-04T00:00:00

Event: HEAD,WIRE ROPE,STRUCK AGAINST,CONSTRUCTION,EQUIPMENT FAILURE,SCAFFOLD RIGGING,SUSPENSION STRAND,SANDBLASTING,SCAFFOLD
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 14542195
Report ID: 418100

Event description

Employee killed in scaffold collapse

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was sandblasting a smokestack from a single point suspension scaffol d. The rigging in this manufactured unity used wire rope clips and shackles. Emp loyee #1 had descended from 60 to 48 ft above ground level when he contacted a m etal flange on the stack, causing a momentary slack in the suspension wire rope. The basket came free, exerting a shock load on the suspension rigging. A sectio n of the rigging failed at a wire rope-clipped fastening, the wire rope pulled o ut of two clips, and the scaffold fell to the ground. Employee #1 struck his hea d on the building structure and was killed.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 27 M

Nature of injury
12

Part of body
13

Event type
5

Source
24

Occupation code
999

Human factor
6

Environmental factor
13

Task assigned
1

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