OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #894550
BRAKE,WORK RULES,SAFETY BELT,LIFELINE,CONSTRUCTION,TWO PT SUSP SCAFFOLD,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,MECH MALFUNCTION
Event description
Employee killed in fall when scaffold malfunctions
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was on a 60 ft high two-point suspended scaffold caulking windows. W hen he started down, one of the climbers malfunctioned, allowing the cable to fr eewheel. The emergency brake also malfunctioned, causing the opposite end of the scaffold to stop moving and the scaffold to become vertical. Employee #1, who w as not using a lifeline and a safety belt, fell 50 ft and was killed. Safety bel ts and lifelines were available at the job site.
Victims (3)
-
#1 Fatality Age 33 M
- Nature of injury
- 22
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
-
#982 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.