OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #809467
COMMUNICATION TOWER,TELECOM WORK,LADDER,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,PAINTER
Event description
FALL - LOST GRIP ON CABLE TELEVISION TOWER
Investigation abstract
A seven-person painting crew arrived at a jobsite to scrape and paint a 154-mete ple injuries. r-high (504-foot-high) cable television tower. The tower was half completed at 5 :00 PM when one of the employees decided to quit for the day. He was 76 meters ( 250 feet) above the ground. He unhooked his safety belt and climbed several feet higher to check a paint bucket that he had secured to the tower for work the ne xt day. He then started back down the ladder. After descending a couple meters, the painter apparently lost his grip on the ladder and fell, striking a control building then going through its roof and ceiling. He landed on some equipment an d came to rest on a concrete floor. He was pronounced dead at the scene of multi
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 29 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 579
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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