OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #996728
COMODORE HOMES SYSTEMS INC
GOSHEN, IN·
Event description
Employee killed in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
At approximately 12:55 p.m. on April 8, 1987, Employee #1 was installing 1 1/2 i drail; material being stored on the work platform; and the work platform not bei ng properly planked. n. air lines at the northwest corner of a building. He was about 20 ft above a c oncrete floor on a tube and coupler type scaffold that was mounted on four 8 in. diameter rubber wheels. The scaffold frame measured approximately 5 ft to 7 ft by 20 ft. Two standard planks were used for the 19 in. wide by 7 ft platform bas e, which allowed an approximately 10 in. space between the planking and the oute r edge of the platform. Employee #1 fell from the scaffold and suffered multiple injuries to the back of his head and to the left side of his body. He was kille d. Factors contributing to this fatality included the lack of a hard hat or guar
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 51 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 519
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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