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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #801670

INSTALLING,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,SCAFFOLD

Event
INSTALLING,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,SCAFFOLD
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
801670
Report ID
454510

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

  1. #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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