Abstract: At approximately 8:19 p.m. on August 14, 1994, Employee #1, a boilermaker foreman, was working from a specialty suspension scaffold in chimney #1 of the Tennessee Valley Authority's Cumberland City fossil plant. Six other boilermakers had just left the scaffold when it fell about 392 feet along with Employee #1, who was killed. The superintendent had ordered the scaffold's main support be disassembled before the scaffold was lowered to ground level. Rigging, welding machines, materials and supplies, etc., were placed on the scaffold, and two 1 in. wire rope hoist lines were cut free. This put the load on a 3/4 inch wire rope hoist line, which was overloaded by 255 percent, and on the diesel hoist located outside the chimney, which was overloaded by 167 percent. The superintendent was in a rush to get the system disassembled because a helicopter had been contracted to remove the structural members of the scaffold support system on Monday.