Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 131063.015 - Employee installing scaffold is killed in fall

Accident Summary Nr: 131063.015 -- Report ID: 0215000 -- Event Date: 11/13/2020
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1502297.015	11/13/2020		238990	Everest Scaffolding Inc.

Abstract: At 1:30 p.m. on November 13, 2020, Employee #1 and a foreman, employed by a scaffold company, were installing a supported scaffold to be used during construction of a new seven-story multifamily residential building. They had completed the scaffold's seventh tier. Employee #1, just after climbing onto the scaffold's eighth tier platform, fell to the concrete pavement, a fall height of 48 feet. Employee #1 sustained blunt force traumatic injury to his head and was killed.

Keywords: Blunt force trauma, Climbing, Elevated Work Platform, Fall, Fall Protection, Head, Installing, Residential Construction, Scaffold

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Multi-family dwelling		New project or new addition			7		X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1502297.015	21	M	Fatality		Construction Laborer	Distance of Fall: 48 feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 48 feet Cause: Temporary work (buildings, facilities) Fatality Cause:

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