OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14544936
GUY DEAVOURS DBA G & G SANDBLASTING CO.
WINFIELD, AL·
Event description
Employee dies of fractured skull in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
At approximately 11:50 a.m. on October 20, 1988, Employee #1 was on a mobile, ma nually-propelled aluminum scaffold (2 ft 5 in. wide by 8 ft 4 in. long) sandblas ting the ceiling and concrete block wall of a cotton mill spinning room. He was positioned 9 ft 6 in. above the concrete floor and had a 2 in. diameter sandblas ting hose wired to the scaffold part that he was using as a top rail. It appears that the weight of the sandblasting hose pulling on the narrow caster wheel ove rturned the scaffold. As Employee #1 fell with the scaffold to the concrete floo r, the back of his head struck the floor, fracturing his skull and killing him.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 47 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 16
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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