Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 144691.015 - Employee is killed in fall off of scaffold

Accident Summary Nr: 144691.015 -- Report ID: 0215000 -- Event Date: 03/21/2022
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1584732.015	03/21/2022		238140	Jepol Construction, Inc.

Abstract: At 1:20 p.m. on March 21, 2022, an employee was in the process of accessing a fire escape. The employee accessed a suspended scaffold that was in a rest position on top of a sidewalk shed scaffold platform. The motor of the suspended scaffold was turned on. Immediately after, the suspended scaffold swung towards the fire escape and crashed into the fire escape. The employee fell approximately 13.5 feet from the suspended scaffold to the ground level. The employee was killed due to impalement. The employee's head was pierced by a picket fence on the ground level during the fall.

Keywords: Fall, Fall From Elevation, Head, Impaled, Scaffold

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		Maintenance or repair			6		X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1584732.015	38	M	Fatality		Supervisors; brickmasons, stonemasons, tilesetters	Distance of Fall: 14 feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 14 feet Cause: Exterior masonry Fatality Cause:

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