OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221657836

156404 - DALE HAYNES CONSTRUCTION, INC.

WILMINGTON, NC· 2024-04-08T00:00:00

Event: Asphalt, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Competent Person, Construction, Contusion, Defect, Defective, Defective Equipment, Equipment Failure, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Inspection, Installing, Parking Lot, Safety Device, Scaffold, Stucco, Tubular Scaffold, Work Surface
NAICS: 238140
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #347415689
Employer profile: 156404 - DALE HAYNES CONSTRUCTION, INC.
Summary number: 221657836
Report ID: 0453710

Event description

Employee dies from blunt force trauma in fall from scaffold

Investigation abstract

On April 8, 2024, an employee working for a masonry contractor was applying stucco to a building. The employee was working from the 5th buck of a five-buck-high tubular welded frame scaffold. Coworkers recently observed the employee on his knees while working. The mid-rail guardrail failed causing the employee to fall nearly 33 feet to the asphalt parking lot below. The employee was pronounced dead at the scene from multiple blunt force trauma.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 58 M

Event type
5

Occupation code
999

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