Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 124888.015 - Employee is killed in fall from scaffold

Accident Summary Nr: 124888.015 -- Report ID: 0214200 -- Event Date: 03/18/2020
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1470413.015	03/18/2020		238990	Minas Construction, Llc

Abstract: At 5:30 p.m. on March 18, 2020, Employee #1, employed by a construction company, was engaged in masonry block work at a multiemployer construction project. He was working from a fabricated frame scaffold. Just four to five minutes earlier, two planks forming a work platform in an area of the scaffold had been removed. Employee #1 moved into this area and fell from the scaffold, a fall height of 29 feet. He sustained traumatic head injuries and was killed.

Keywords: Construction, Fall, Fall Protection, Head, Masonry Wall, Plank, Scaffold, Traumatic, Work Platform

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Multi-family dwelling		New project or new addition				29	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1470413.015	47	M	Fatality		Laborers, except construction	Distance of Fall: 29 feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 29 feet Cause: Exterior masonry Fatality Cause:

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