OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221692221

FROEBA CONSTRUCTION, LLC.

BIRCHWOOD, WI— 2024-07-29T00:00:00

Event: Brain Bleed, Ceiling, Concrete Floor, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Guardrail, Installing, Laborer, Planking, Plastic, Scaffold, Scissor lift, Unguarded
NAICS: 238350
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #347685620
Employer profile: FROEBA CONSTRUCTION, LLC.
Summary number: 221692221
Report ID: 0523900
Project type: A
Construction end-use: A

Event description

Employee dies after fall from scaffold

Investigation abstract

At 8:15 a.m. on July 29, 2024, two employees were performing finishing work that entailed stapling plastic poly sheeting to the ceiling of a 16-foot garage. The employee, a laborer, was working from a scaffold, approximately 130 inches in height, to install the sheeting, while the coworker was working from a scissor lift. The employee working from the scaffold fell to the concrete floor. The coworker did not see the fall. The scaffold did not have guardrails and was not fully planked. The employee died at the hospital from a brain bleed.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 57 M

Event type
5

Occupation code
7010

Fall distance
10

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