OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #801670
INSTALLING,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,SCAFFOLD
Event description
Employee killed in fall from scaffold buck
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was installing metal strips and wire on the side of a multi-storied building while on the sixth or seventh level of a nine buck high tubular welded scaffold with guardrails. The scaffold bucks were each 77 in. high. For some rea son, Employee #1 fell 35 to 40 ft from the sixth or seventh level buck and died of internal injuries.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 27 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 869
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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