OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #968487
REGENCY WINDOW CLEANING
LAS VEGAS, NV·
Event description
Employee injured after falling from collapsing work platform
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was walking on a 20 ft long work platform to install a hanger bracke t on the wall to support one end of the work platform. One end of the platform w as resting on a side rail and the other end was suspended by a rope from the roo f. The rope broke, causing Employee #1 and the platform to fall 38 ft onto a roo f between the garage and the north side of the equipment building. Employee #1 w as transported to UMC Hospital.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 53 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 443
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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