Accident Report Detail
Accident Summary Nr: 648626 - Employee dies in fall from scaffold being dismantled
Inspection Nr | Date Opened | SIC | NAICS | Establishment Name |
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101483501 | 06/14/1993 | 1751 | 0 | Universal Building Supply, Inc. |
Abstract: Employee #1 was on a 2 in. o.d. pipe structure built as a support system for a canvas, outside vertical scaffold cover. The pipe structure was attached to the scaffold and was 10 in. off the framework. Employee #1 was removing tape that had covered the bolts on the connecting fasteners to prevent tearing of the canvas, when he fell seven levels to the street. He died. Employee #1 was wearing a safety belt and lanyard, but was not tied off. The ten story tube and coupler scaffold was in the first stages of being dismantled.
Employee # | Inspection Nr | Age | Sex | Degree of Injury | Nature of Injury | Occupation |
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1 | 101483501 | Fatality | Concussion | Carpenters |