Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 14333678 - Employee dies in fall from scaffold

Accident Summary Nr: 14333678 -- Report ID: 0420600 -- Event Date: 08/23/1994
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
109611947	08/24/1994	1542	0	W & J Construction Corporation

Abstract: Employee #1, a labor foreman, stepped on an unsupported plank on an elevated scaffold platform. The plank, which was part of the outrigger platform, was not secured to its support bracket. An adjacent section of the scaffold had been dismantled earlier that day and the plank had been shifted to the still standing frame without being properly anchored. The plank overlapped its support bracket in such a way that it teeter-tottered on the support. Employee #1 stepped from the main elevated work platform to the outrigger platform and fell 24 feet to the concrete floor. He died.

Keywords: PLATFORM, UNSECURED, WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, PLANK, UNSTABLE SURFACE, FALL, ELEVATED WORK PLAT, SCAFFOLD

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	109611947			Fatality	Electric Shock	Occupation not reported

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