OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #606806
PASCO INDUSTRIAL COATING COMPANY
SASSER, GA·
Event description
Employee killed in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
At 3:18 p.m. on April 25, 1987, Employee #1 and a coworker were painting the und erside of a water tank using a two-point suspension scaffold. The cable hook cam e loose from the water tank, causing Employee #1 to fall from the scaffold. He s ustained multiple fractures and was killed. The scaffold did not have tie backs as a secondary means of anchorage nor was Employee #1's lifeline secured to a st ructure other than the scaffold.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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