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Accident: 200672921 - Employee Killed In Fall From Bosun'S Chair

**Accident: 200672921 -- Report ID: 0418800 -- Event Date: 10/10/2000**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
303185755	10/10/2000	7349	Ac Window Corp And/Or Cliffhanger High Rise Svc

At approximately 10:30 a.m. on October 10, 2000, Employee #1, a window washer, was using a boatswain's chair to clean the windows on a six-story building. He fell approximately 60 ft and was killed. Neither his lifeline nor the chair's suspension line had been adequately secured. The supervisor was at the site at the time of the accident.

Keywords: window washer, bosun chair, lifeline, unsecured, work rules, fall, suspension strand

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation
1	303185755			Fatality	Other	Occupation not reported

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