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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221363484

63849 - KV FLOORING INC

Event
Dizziness, Fall, Head, Installing, Scaffold
NAICS
238310
Inspection type
Federal Agency
Activity number
#345355663
Employer profile
63849 - KV FLOORING INC
Summary number
221363484
Report ID
0452110

Event description

Employee falls off scaffold and dies of head injury

Investigation abstract

At 12:00 a.m. on June 8, 2021, an employee worked from a thirty-seven inch scaffold to install acoustical tile grid. At some point, the employee knelt down, began to feel dizzy, and fell backwards, approximately three feet off the scaffold. The employee was taken to the hospital for a head injury and died the next day.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 64 M

    Event type
    5
    Occupation code
    999

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