OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221672322

HI-TECH STAKE-OUT INC.

CHICAGO, IL· 2024-06-06T00:00:00

Event: Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Commercial Building, Construction, Elevated, Elevated Work Plat, Elevated Work Platform, Engineering Technician, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Ground, High Wind, Inexperience, Iron Worker, Journeyman, Multi-employer Worksite, Multiemployer, Scaffold, Shear, Sheared, Steel, Structural Collapse, Surveyor, Technician, Wall, Weather, Welding
NAICS: 541330
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #347535858
Employer profile: HI-TECH STAKE-OUT INC.
Summary number: 221672322
Report ID: 0521700
Project type: A
Construction end-use: C

Event description

One employee is killed, another employee is injured in fall

Investigation abstract

At approximately 11:41 a.m. on June 6, 2024, Employee #1 who was working as a instantly and Employee #2, a journeyman ironworker, was hospitalized with life threatening injuries. technical engineer for an engineering contractor, was performing a survey and layout operations for installation of structural steel on core walls. Employee #2 was welding structural steel lugs to steel embeds in the core walls. During a wind gust of approximately 48 miles per hour (mph), the corner of an exterior single level temporary elevated working platform at the southwest corner of the south core separated and pulled away from the core wall. Both Employee #1 and Employee #2 fell between the platform and the core wall as a result. Both employees fell approximately 145 feet to the ground below. Employee #1 died

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 27 M

Event type
5

Occupation code
7052

Fall distance
145

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