Accident Report Detail
Accident: 131306.015 - Employee Dismantling Scaffold Is Killed In Fall
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name |
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1503879.015 | 11/24/2020 | Brandsafway Solutions, Llc |
At 9:00 a.m. on November 24, 2020, Employee #1 and coworkers, employed by a scaf fold company, were dismantling a five-level stair tower scaffold at the construc tion site for a new commercial building. They were on the scaffold's fifth leve l, where guardrails had been removed as part of the dismantling process. Employ ee #1 fell, a fall height of 54 feet. Emergency services transported the employ ee to the hospital, where he was declared dead. The subsequent investigation de termined that the employer had a 100% tie-off policy for employees working at 6 feet or higher. Employee #1 had been wearing a full body harness and double se lf-retracting lanyards attached to the harness. Employee #1, for unknown reason , had apparently removed his lanyards from an anchor point and thus was unprotec ted when he fell.
End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
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Commercial building | New project or new addition | 6 | X |
Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
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1 | 1503879.015 | 36 | M | Fatality | Construction laborers | FallDist: 54 FallHt:54 Cause: Temporary work (buildings, facilities) FatCause: |