Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 170360705 - Employee killed in fall from scaffold platform

Accident Summary Nr: 170360705 -- Report ID: 0950623 -- Event Date: 05/20/1996
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
111968657	05/21/1996	1799	0	Lowe-North Construction, Inc.

Abstract: At 2:00 p.m. on May 20, 1996, Employee #1 was working for a contractor hired by the National Weather Service to construct a 32.8 ft tall Nexrad radar weather station. He was working from a Safeway Steel Company tubular scaffold, standing on a 5 ft wide by 7 ft long cantilevered platform. Employee #1 was completing the installation of the lightning arrestor and the dome for the outside light bracket. He needed only to close the dome top hatch when he fell 30 ft 7 3/4 in. from the scaffold platform and was killed. Employee #1 was not tied off or protected by standard guardrails while working on the platform.

Keywords: GUARDRAIL, WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, FALL, FALL PROTECTION, ELEVATED WORK PLAT, TIE-OFF, WORK PLATFORM, SCAFFOLD

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	111968657			Fatality	Fracture	Structural metal workers

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