OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14265193
V PELLETIER & SONS INC
CAMBRIDGE, MA—
Event description
Employee killed when scaffold tips over
Investigation abstract
At approximately 11:30 a.m. on January 28,1985, Employee #1 and a coworker were installing drywall from a manually propelled mobile scaffold that they had set u p over an 8-ft by 18-ft by 6-in. floor opening. One end of the scaffold moved, c ausing one of its wheels to go into the opening and the scaffold to tip. Employe e #1 fell 21 ft, 6 in. through the opening, striking his head on the concrete fl oor. He was hospitalized and died the same day. The coworker fell on a beam 3 ft below and managed to hold on; he was injured.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 31 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 12
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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