OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #980213516
MONTA CONTRACTORS
ATLANTA, GA·
Event description
Employee killed in fall from high-rise building
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was a laborer on a two-man precast concrete crew. He and a coworker had taken down the wire rope guardrails at the corner of the fifth floor of a hi gh-rise office building under construction. They finished cutting the precast co ncrete at the edge of the building and were re-installing the wire rope guardrai ls. Employee #1 was pulling the tension for the top rail when he walked backward off the edge of the building and was killed. Neither employee was tied-off with a safety belt or lanyard.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 24 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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