Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221431281

SKY HIGH LLC

Event
Basket, Blunt force trauma, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Window Washer
NAICS
561210
Inspection type
Federal Agency
Activity number
#345747190
Employer profile
SKY HIGH LLC
Summary number
221431281
Report ID
0950632

Event description

Employee falls in window washer basket and is killed

Investigation abstract

At 12:30 a.m. on January 26, 2022, an employee worked from a window washer basket attached to a monorail at the twelfth floor of a residential building. As the employee moved the window washing basket along the monorail, it fell off the end of the monorail, past the missing monorail end stop. The employee fell approximately one hundred and twenty feet and was killed by multiple blunt force trauma injuries.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 38 M

    Event type
    5
    Occupation code
    453

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