Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200030203 - Employee dies after fall from makeshift scaffold

Accident Summary Nr: 200030203 -- Report ID: 0521700 -- Event Date: 12/18/1996
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
300032406	12/20/1996	1721	0	Ward Decorating

Abstract: At approximately 9:30 p.m. on December 18, 1996, Employee #1 was plastering and painting the third floor stairway in a school. The foreman had built a work platform by erecting a baker's scaffold on the third floor and a tubular welded-frame scaffold on the second floor. The foreman had then placed a 12 in. by 30 ft plank and a 14 in. by 16 ft plank between the two scaffolds to make a work platform. Employee #1 had gone to the baker's scaffold to get more mud from a coworker, and was turning around to walk east on the plank, when he apparently lost his balance and fell 22 ft to the second floor stairway landing. He died on December 19, 1996.

Keywords: WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, FALL, FALL PROTECTION, ELEVATED WORK PLAT, LOST BALANCE, WORK PLATFORM, WORK SURFACE, SCAFFOLD, TUBULAR SCAFFOLD

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Other building		Maintenance or repair		Under $50,000	3	22	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	300032406			Fatality	Other	Occupation not reported	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 22 feet Cause: Interior painting and decorating Fatality Cause: Fall from/with scaffold

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