OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14549737
GUARDRAIL,WORK RULES,SAFETY BELT,CONSTRUCTION,EQUIPMENT FAILURE,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,SCAFFOLD
Event description
Employee killed in 90 ft fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
At approximately 3:15 p.m. on July 14, 1984, Employee #1 and a coworker were spr her man was wearing a safety belt. A guardrail had not been installed on the sca ffold. aying gunite from a circular three-point suspension scaffold inside the #5 furna ce cupola at Wheland Foundry. This material was forced through a hose by air pre ssure, mixed with water at the nozzle, and sprayed onto the inner wall of the cu pola. The scaffold was suspended by wire rope that was secured outside the top o f the cupola and raised and lowered by three Sky Climber model ME4 controls. One of the scaffold mounting brackets broke, causing the scaffold to tip. Employee #1 fell approximately 90 ft to the ground and was killed. Two safety ropes, secu red outside the top of the cupola, ran the length of the 112 ft cupola, but neit
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 34 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 563
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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