Abstract: At approximately 3:45 p.m. on April 9, 2004, Employee #1 and a coworker were performing repair work on the mortar of a building at 2224 North Leavitt Street in Chicago, Illinois. The scaffold collapsed, and Employee #1 was killed and the coworker was seriously injured. The employee and the coworker approached the building's owner to do some repair work, and she agreed to the work and paid the men cash for materials and half the labor up front, with the balance to be paid upon completion of the work. The building owner did not have a written contract with the men just a verbal agreement with payment being made in cash. The employee and his coworker worked for themselves for cash doing odd jobs and all the equipment was owned by the employee. (The injured coworker, who was not listed on an injury line on the original form, was the nephew of Employee #1. The two employees worked for themselves for cash doing odd jobs. All the equipment was owned by employee #1.)