OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #690057
SHOLINGS SANDBLASTING & PAINTING
SHAKOPEE, MN·
Event description
Two employees killed in fall with scaffold
Investigation abstract
On October 11, 1985, Employees #1 and #2 were inside a water tank, working from a two-point suspension scaffold when its improperly rigged suspension system cau sed the south lines to come apart. The scaffold swung like a pendulum, dumping E mployees #1 and #2 and causing the north cable to slip through the wire rope cli ps and the scaffold to fall 105 ft to the tank floor. Employees #1 and #2 suffer ed severe head trauma and were killed.
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 31 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 579
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Fatality Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 579
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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