Accident Report Detail

Accident: 130038.015 - One Employee Is Killed, Four Are Injured When Scaffold Tips

**Accident: 130038.015 -- Report ID: 0625700 -- Event Date: 10/05/2020**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1495724.015	10/05/2020		Preload, Llc

At 8:00 a.m. on October 5, 2020, Employee #1 and four coworkers including a fore man, employed by a construction company specializing in concrete tanks, were pai nting interior joints of a two million gallon water storage tank. They were wor king from a scaffold mounted on an employer-fabricated rolling base. As the cow orkers 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. Th e coworkers received treatment for their injuries, but none required hospitaliza tion.

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		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
Tower, tank, storage elevator		New project or new addition			5		X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation	Construction
1	1495724.015	33	M	Fatality		Painters, construction and maintenance	FallDist: 30 FallHt:30 Cause: Interior painting and decorating FatCause:

UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA