Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 202005336 - Employee Is Killed in Scaffold Collapse

Accident Summary Nr: 202005336 -- Report ID: 0317000 -- Event Date: 01/07/2010
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
312493943	01/07/2010	1741	238140	Typex Masonry Developers

Abstract: On January 7, 2010, Employee #1 was doing masonry work from a single 6.5 ft section of narrow tubular welded frame scaffold that had been placed atop a residential porch roof. This narrow scaffold was approximately 30-in. wide rather than the more common 60-in.wide scaffold. The porch roof was approximately 10 ft wide and 13 ft above the concrete driveway. To compensate for the pitch of the roof, small blocks of wood were placed under the back scaffold legs. There were no base plates. Employee #1 fell to the concrete driveway below, and the scaffold fell on top of him. Employee #1 died from blunt force head trauma.

Keywords: HEAD, ROOF, STRUCK AGAINST, SCAFFOLD COLLAPSE, FALL, STRUCK BY, CONCUSSION, SCAFFOLD

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Multi-family dwelling		Alteration or rehabilitation		$50,000 to $250,000	2		X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	312493943			Fatality	Other	Brickmasons and stonemasons	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 18 feet Cause: Exterior masonry Fatality Cause: Fall from/with scaffold

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