Case Report from OSHA files
- An employee was riding a swinging scaffold down the side of a water tank when the air line for a sand blaster became caught by the scaffold and
pulled an air purifier from the walkway. The purifier struck the employee and knocked him from the scaffolding. He was not wearing his safety belt and
was killed.
- While returning to the 18th floor of a building on a two-point suspension scaffold, two employees had risen to about the 4th floor when one of them
was struck by a length of steel reinforcement bar. The rebar had apparently been loosened from the concrete on the 19th floor and fallen almost straight
down. It pierced the victim on the top of his shoulder and continued through his body. He was killed.
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