OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221385495
SILLIMAN GROUP, LLC
CHICAGO, IL·
Event description
Employee falls from scaffold and is killed by head injury
Investigation abstract
At 3:00 p.m. on August 25, 2021, an employee worked to paint a ceiling while working from a tubular welded frame scaffold on caster wheels. At some point, the employee fell approximately eight feet from the scaffold, received blunt force trauma injuries to the head, and was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 60 M
- Event type
- 5
- Occupation code
- 789
- Fall distance
- 8
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