OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14400147
HALEY GREEN INC
DALLAS, TX—
Event description
Employee killed in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and a coworker were installing aluminum window frames on the fourtee nth floor. Because the frames had high headers, they were welding from a 5 ft ma nually propelled mobile scaffold. They were having trouble installing a header a nd used a 2 by 4 to spread the vertical molds so that the horizontal header woul d slide into place. Employee #1 was hitting the 2 by 4 with a hammer when the bo ard popped out. The momentum of his swing carried Employee #1 forward, causing h im to fall 14 stories. He was killed. The employees were not tied off nor had th ey locked the scaffold wheels prior to starting work.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 21 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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