Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200920247 - Employee killed in fall with motorized scaffold

Accident Summary Nr: 200920247 -- Report ID: 0355114 -- Event Date: 04/11/2000
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
303244206	04/13/2000	1711	0	United Sprinkler Co., Inc.

Abstract: On April 11, 2000, Employee #1 was loading a Condor motorized scaffold, model 2532, manufactured by the Calavar Corporation, onto a GM flatbed truck. One scaffold had already been loaded on the right-hand side of the truck bed. According to an eyewitness, Employee #1 was standing on the work platform of the 8 ft long by 2 ft 8 1/2 in. wide scaffold, operating the controls to drive the scaffold onto the truck bed, but the truck was not backed up square to the dock plate of the loading dock. The scaffold was crossing onto the truck bed when its front left wheel fell off of the bed and then the entire scaffold overturned off the left side of the truck bed. Employee #1 fell with the scaffold and was killed.

Keywords: LOADING, MOBILE SCAFFOLD, WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, FALL, MECH MAT HANDLING, ELEVATED WORK PLAT, FLATBED TRUCK, MOTOR VEHICLE, UNSTABLE POSITION

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		Alteration or rehabilitation		$5,000,000 to $20,000,000			X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	303244206			Fatality	Concussion	Occupation not reported	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 10 feet Cause: Loading dock forming and pouring Fatality Cause: Fall, other

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