OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221471360

UNIVERSAL TILE & MARBLE LLC

PROSPER, TX— 2022-06-16T00:00:00

Event: Concrete Floor, Construction, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Fracture, Head, Insufficient Supervision, Lack of Engineering Controls, Lack of Work Procedures, Ladder, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Multi-employer Worksite, Multiemployer, Scaffold, Skull, Supervision, Supervisor, Unresponsive, Unstable Position, Unstable Surface, Walking Surface, Work Surface
NAICS: 238340
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #346030737
Employer profile: UNIVERSAL TILE & MARBLE LLC
Summary number: 221471360
Report ID: 0626300
Project type: A
Construction end-use: A

Event description

Employee is killed in fall off scaffold grouting fireplace

Investigation abstract

At 12:05 p.m. on June 16, 2022, an employee was grouting a fireplace that had fireplace. No one witnessed the fall, but the ladder and scaffolding had fallen over and away from the fireplace. It is most likely that while the employee was pushing the grout into the space between the tiles he pushed on the ladder and caused the scaffold to tilt away from the fireplace. The scaffolding fell onto its side bring the employee down with it. The employee was killed when he fell straight down to the ground. The employee landed headfirst on the concrete floor and was unresponsive after the fall. Paramedics noted that the employee had a depressed skull fracture enar the right temple and attempted resuscitation on site but they could not revive the employee. been tiled the previous day. The fireplace is approximately twenty-one feet tall. The employee and coworkers had assembled a mobile scaffolding two-tiers tall and approximately 11-feet tall. To reach the top of the fireplace, the employee and coworkers used a Louisville 6-foot A-frame ladder placed on top of the scaffolding. The employee was observed working alone and had been standing on the ladder for about 30 minutes. Two coworkers from another subcontractor working in a room upstairs heard a scream and a crash. The coworkers found the employee laying face down on the concrete floor directly in front of the

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 44 M

Event type
5

Occupation code
565

Fall distance
15

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