OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14557714

HEAD,MOBILE SCAFFOLD,UNSECURED,CONSTRUCTION,PLANK,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,PAINTER,UNSTABLE POSITION

1986-07-17T00:00:00

Event: HEAD,MOBILE SCAFFOLD,UNSECURED,CONSTRUCTION,PLANK,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,PAINTER,UNSTABLE POSITION
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 14557714
Report ID: 653510

Event description

Employee killed in 20 ft fall with scaffold plank

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 and two coworkers were applying a protective coating to the inside o f a sewage plant digester that was in the final stages of construction. One cowo rker was atop a manually propelled scaffold with a spray painter. The other cowo rker was situated below to move the scaffold, which was mounted so it could be r olled in an arc around the digester. Employee #1 was on an outrigger painting th e wall with a roller. He stepped onto a 19 in. by 84 in. aluminum plank that ove rlapped the outrigger by 2 ft., and he and the plank fell 20 ft. Employee #1suff ered massive head injuries, and was killed.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 27 M

Nature of injury
6

Part of body
13

Event type
5

Source
43

Occupation code
579

Human factor
6

Environmental factor
18

Task assigned
1

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