OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #693788
VALUE HOMES CORPORATION
CLIFTON, VA·
Event description
Employee killed in fall from scaffolding
Investigation abstract
At approximately 11:40 a.m. on November 12, 1985, Employee #1, a 75-year-old pai . The employer failed to correct unsafe scaffolding conditions including lack of supervision, guardrail, or ppe, and employee negligence. nter, was climbing approximately 30 ft high on a mason's scaffold at the right s ide of a structure, where he had been painting window trim and cornice. He lost his grip and/or footing and fell backward, striking his head against and breakin g a 2 by 8 in. plank that extended 50 in. over the scaffold edge. He continued t o fall approximately 30 ft to masonry debris. Employee #1 landed on his right si de and shoulder and became unconscious. County rescue started CPR at 11:50 a.m. and continued for approximately 10 minutes until Employee #1 was pronounced dead of severe trauma to the aorta, which caused his chest cavity to fill with blood
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 75 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 579
- Human factor
- 12
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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