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Case Status: CLOSED

Case Status: CLOSED

Accident Investigation Summary
Summary Nr: 131306.015 Event: 11/24/2020Employee Dismantling Scaffold Is Killed In Fall
At 9:00 a.m. on November 24, 2020, Employee #1 and coworkers, employed by a scaf fold company, were dismantling a five-level stair tower scaffold at the construc tion site for a new commercial building. They were on the scaffold's fifth leve l, where guardrails had been removed as part of the dismantling process. Employ ee #1 fell, a fall height of 54 feet. Emergency services transported the employ ee to the hospital, where he was declared dead. The subsequent investigation de termined that the employer had a 100% tie-off policy for employees working at 6 feet or higher. Employee #1 had been wearing a full body harness and double se lf-retracting lanyards attached to the harness. Employee #1, for unknown reason , had apparently removed his lanyards from an anchor point and thus was unprotec ted when he fell.
Keywords: blunt force trauma, construction, dismantling, fall, fall protection, fracture, guardrail, scaffold, stair, unguarded, unprotected
Inspection Degree Nature Occupation
1 1503879.015 Fatality Construction laborers

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