OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #848069
WORK RULES,SAFETY BELT,CONSTRUCTION,TRUCK,LANYARD,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,SCAFFOLD
Event description
CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYEE KILLED IN FALL FROM SCAFFOLD
Investigation abstract
ON JULY 30, 1987, EMPLOYEE #1 LEFT HIS FLAGMAN POSITION AT STREET LEVEL TO DELIV RUCK DRIVER CONTENDED THAT HE WAS BEING GUIDED PAST THE SCAFFOLD ON THE GROUND W HEN THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED. ANOTHER PERSON WHO WAS INVOLVED IN FLAGGING TRAFFIC W ITH EMPLOYEE #1 CONTENDED HE HAD NO CONTACT WITH THE TRUCK DRIVER AND WAS NOT WI THIN 75 FEET OF THE TRUCK. THERE WERE NO OTHER WITNESSES AT THE SCENE AND OTHER EMPLOYEES ON THE SCAFFOLD COULD NOT PROVIDE ANY INFORMATION AS TO WHETHER THE OT HER FLAGMAN HAD OR HAD NOT PROVIDED ANY SIGNALS OR DIRECTIONS TO THE TRUCK DRIVE R. ER SOME MATERIAL TO OTHER EMPLOYEES WORKING FROM A SCAFFOLD SUSPENDED UNDER A BR IDGE. WHILE EMPLOYEE #1 WAS ON THE SCAFFOLD A TRUCK PULLING INTO THE STREET FROM AN ADJACENT PARKING LOT BUMPED THE SCAFFOLD WITH A CORNER OF ITS TRAILER. EMPLO YEE #1 WAS KILLED WHEN HE FELL 13 FEET FROM THE SCAFFOLD TO THE GROUND. THE OTHE R EMPLOYEES ON THE SCAFFOLD DID NOT FALL AND WERE UNHURT. ALL THE OTHER EMPLOYEE S WERE WEARING SAFETY BELTS WHICH WOULD HAVE LIMITED THEIR FALL HAD THEY LOST TH EIR BALANCE OR FOOTING ON THE SCAFFOLD. INTERVIEWS WITH THE OTHER EMPLOYEES COUL D NOT SUBSTANTIATE WHO WAS AT FAULT AS THEY PROVIDED CONFLICTING EVIDENCE. THE T
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 38 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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