Accident Report Detail
Accident: 123792.015 - Employee Is Killed In Fall From Scaffold
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name |
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1461320.015 | 02/06/2020 | Cramer And Associates |
At 8:00 a.m. on February 6, 2020, an employee was working from a scaffold platfo rm set on top of a bridge pier to work on pouring the concrete for a cap. The sc affold platform included Safway scaffold guardrails with "G" Lock Guardrail Post s that were installed backwards with the locks facing away from the platform. Th e employee began to hoist a three foot by three foot plastic concrete hopper wit h the rope laying on the top guardrail of the scaffold. As the hopper was raised , the top rail came loose and the employee fell approximately twenty feet and wa s killed due to head trauma.
End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
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Bridge | New project or new addition | 20 | X |
Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
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1 | 1461320.015 | 56 | M | Fatality | Construction laborers | FallDist: 20 FallHt:20 Cause: Pouring concrete for piers, and pylons FatCause: |