OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14469324
AMERICAN PAINTING
BELLE VERNON, PA—
Event description
Employee Fell from Scaffold and Drowned in a River
Investigation abstract
An employee was transferring the support cable on a Sky Climber single-point sus pension scaffold from one joint on a bridge to another. While operating the hois ting mechanism of the scaffold, the wire rope that supported the scaffold broke, causing the scaffold to upend, and the employee to fall. The employee, who was not wearing personal fall arrest equipment, fell and struck the bridge superstru cture. He continued his fall into the Monongahela River and drowned.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 36 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 31
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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