OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14311310
COSTANZA CONTRACTING CO
CHERRY HILL, NJ—
Event description
Employee killed in fall from tubular welded scaffold
Investigation abstract
At approximately 2:11 p.m. on March 21, 1985, Employee #1 and three coworkers we place at the opposite edge of the platform. re 15 ft 5 in. above a concrete floor on a platform on a tubular welded frame sc affold. Employee #1 was lying on his back near the edge of the approximately 50 in. wide platform, holding a piece of cardboard up to the bottom corner of a rou nded permanent entrance canopy. There was approximately 30 in. of work space bet ween the scaffold platform and the soffit panel ceiling. Employee #1 was attempt ing to move to the next piece when he apparently rolled off the edge and struck his head against the concrete. He died of severe head injuries. Standard guardra ils at this edge were impractical due to the low ceiling guardrails that were in
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 55 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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