OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14557714
WESCO PAINTING
ALBUQUERQUE, NM·
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
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#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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