OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #970491

INSTALLING,STEPLADDER,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,OVERTURN,SCAFFOLD,UNSTABLE POSITION

1989-10-02T00:00:00

Event: INSTALLING,STEPLADDER,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,OVERTURN,SCAFFOLD,UNSTABLE POSITION
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 970491
Report ID: 854910

Event description

Employee dies after fall when scaffold collapses

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was installing a loudspeaker 13 ft above a concrete floor. The emplo yee had a 6 foot stepladder on top of a 6 ft 4 in. baker's scaffold. While he wa s trying to screw the braces of the loudspeaker stand to metal studs, the scaffo ld tipped over, letting the employee and ladder fall to the concrete floor. The employee was taken by Life Flight to LDS Hospital, where he died at 2:30 a.m. on October 3, 1989.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 52 M

Nature of injury
12

Part of body
13

Event type
5

Source
8

Occupation code
523

Human factor
6

Environmental factor
13

Task assigned
1

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