Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 154440.015 - Employee dies of head injury in fall from unguarded scaffold

Accident Summary Nr: 154440.015 -- Report ID: 0420600 -- Event Date: 03/08/2023
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1655203.015	03/08/2023		238310	M & M Insulation Inc

Abstract: At 10:15 a.m. on March 8, 2023, an employee working as an installer for an insulation contractor was installing insulation while standing on a mobile scaffold. The scaffold had no guards on the top platform and no locked wheel casters. While reaching above himself, the mobile scaffold wheels rolled and slid from beneath the employee. The employee fell approximately 6-foot-8-inches to the concrete ground below landing on his back. The employee sustained lacerations and punctures to the back of his head and died.

Keywords: Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Caster, Competent Person, Concrete Floor, Construction, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Guardrail, Head, Laceration, Lack of Work Procedures, Mobile Scaffold, Puncture, Puncture Wound, Residential Construction, Safety Device, Struck Against, Work Surface

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Single family or duplex dwelling		New project or new addition				6	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1655203.015	32	M	Fatality		Installers And Repairers	Distance of Fall: 6 feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Interior carpentry Fatality Cause:

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