Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 128338.015 - One is killed, two are injured when scaffold collapses

Accident Summary Nr: 128338.015 -- Report ID: 0418200 -- Event Date: 08/04/2020
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1486759.015	08/05/2020		238140	Enmanuel Construction, Llc

Abstract: At 3:30 p.m. on August 4, 2020, Employees #1, #2, and #3, employed by a masonry construction company, were working at a multi-employer construction project, a new 18-story commercial building. They were working from a fabricated welded frame scaffold system with caster wheels and platform extension and installing the brown coat mixture of Exterior Insulation and Finish System (EIFS) and Portland Cement to the soffit with mesh embedded into the west base coat. The weight of the employees and materials on one side of the scaffold platform caused the scaffold to tip over the guardrails on the leading edge of the 8th floor down to the 7th floor. All three employees fell with the scaffold over the edge and crashed down to the lower concrete surface, a fall height of 18 feet. Employee #1 sustained fatal crushing injuries to the chest from the weight of the scaffold. Employees #2 and #3 were transported to the hospital, admitted, and treated for fractured arms and legs.

Keywords: Arm, Blunt force trauma, Cementing, Chest, Coating Operation, Concrete, Construction, Crushed, Fall, Fall Protection, Falling Object, Fracture, Guardrail, Installing, Leg, Mobile Scaffold, Scaffold Collapse, Struck Against, Struck By

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		New project or new addition			14		X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Construction
1	1486759.015	35	M	Fatality		Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Exterior masonry Fatality Cause:

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