OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #802827
JENNINGS PAINT & GLASS CO.
SPARTANBURG, SC·
Event description
One employee killed, one injured in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 discovered that the right side wire rope on a two-point suspension s caffold needed to be replaced. During his lunch break, he obtained a new, prerig ged wire rope and was assigned to replace the kinked wire rope. The U bolts on t he new wire rope were inverted. The two employees had just gotten on the scaffol d and were tying off when the wire rope slipped through the inverted U bolts, ca using the employees to fall 4.4 ft to the ground. Employee #1 sustained fracture d legs and was hospitalized. Employee #2 died as a result of neck injuries.
Victims (2)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 42 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 16
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 589
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Fatality Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 20
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 589
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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