Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 130038.015 - One employee is killed, four are injured when scaffold tips

Accident Summary Nr: 130038.015 -- Report ID: 0625700 -- Event Date: 10/05/2020
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1495724.015	10/05/2020		237110	Preload, Llc

Abstract: At 8:00 a.m. on October 5, 2020, Employee #1 and four coworkers including a foreman, employed by a construction company specializing in concrete tanks, were painting interior joints of a two million gallon water storage tank. They were working from a scaffold mounted on an employer-fabricated rolling base. As the coworkers attempted to move the scaffold, one of the scaffold wheels slipped into a 9-inch deep hole in the concrete floor. The scaffold tipped over. Employee #1 fell 30 feet to the concrete surface, sustained blunt force traumatic injuries, and was killed. His four coworkers fell from lower levels of the scaffold. The coworkers received treatment for their injuries, but none required hospitalization.

Keywords: Blunt force trauma, Concrete, Construction, Equipment Failure, Fall, Fall Protection, Floor Hole, Mobile Scaffold, Paint, Painter, Scaffold, Scaffold Collapse, Storage Tank, Tower, Water Tank, Wheel

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Tower, tank, storage elevator		New project or new addition			5		X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1495724.015	33	M	Fatality		Painters, construction and maintenance	Distance of Fall: 30 feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 30 feet Cause: Interior painting and decorating Fatality Cause:

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