OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #674499
QUANTUM CONSTRUCTORS INC.
COLUMBIA, SC·
Event description
Employee killed in scaffold collapse
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was approximately 200 feet (18 stories) above the ground on a 24 ft long R.D. Werner bracket scaffold, model 3224, installing siding. The scaffold c ollapsed and Employee #1 fell. He sustained multiple injuries and was killed. Th e scaffold bracket which broke and all other brackets used with this system were made without engineering plans and were improperly welded. The scaffold boards were not belted to the brackets. The safety line (rope) was in poor condition an d was not a wire rope, which it should have been because the rope is exposed to potential abrasion.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 24 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 12
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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