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Accident: 14454797 - Employee Dies In 30 Ft Fall From Scaffold

Accident: 14454797 -- Report ID: 0728100 -- Event Date: 09/08/1986
InspectionOpen DateSICEstablishment Name
10191816709/18/19861521Ron Elbert Construction
Employee #1 was atop a scaffold, finishing a break of coffee and bread. As he was getting up to return to work, he fell 30 ft through the scaffold's guardrails and landed, head first, on a concrete surface. The back of his head was so severely damaged that an autopsy could not determine whether Employee #1 had suffered a stroke.
Keywords: head, guardrail, work rules, construction, fall, scaffold
Employee # Inspection Age Sex Degree Nature Occupation
1 101918167 Fatality Other Construction laborers

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