Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200924066 - Employee Dies after Fall from Platform

Accident Summary Nr: 200924066 -- Report ID: 0355112 -- Event Date: 05/05/2005
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
309070605	05/05/2005	1741	238140	Davis Masonry, Inc.

Abstract: On May 5, 2005, Employee #1, who worked for Davis Masonry, was disassembling the seventh platform of a tubular steel scaffold, while his coworkers were working on the left side of the sixth platform cleaning the recently erected brick wall with a pressure washer. Employee #1 moved two planks that had been placed between the stairway bottom step and the adjacent scaffold frame located at the sixth platform. Employee #1 went up the stairway between the sixth and seventh platform to remove a stair rail. When he stepped back down, not remembering that he had moved the planks, he fell approximately thirty feet from the sixth platform to the ground. He was pronounced dead on arrival by emergency medical services.

Keywords: PLATFORM, CONSTRUCTION, STAIR LANDING, FALL, FALL PROTECTION, TUBULAR SCAFFOLD

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		Alteration or rehabilitation		$50,000 to $250,000	4	50	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	309070605			Fatality	Bruise/Contus/Abras	Supervisors; brickmasons, stonemasons, tilesetters	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 38 feet Cause: Exterior masonry Fatality Cause: Fall from/with scaffold

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