OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221475056

SUPREME FINISHING

SALT LAKE CITY, UT— 2022-06-30T00:00:00

Event: Balcony, Carpenter, Concrete, Door, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Fracture, Guardrail, Inexperience, Installing, Lack of Engineering Controls, Lack of Work Procedures, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, PPE, PPE Hazard Assessment, Pavement, Residential Construction, Suicide, Unprotected
NAICS: 238350
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #346056294
Employer profile: SUPREME FINISHING
Summary number: 221475056
Report ID: 0854910
Project type: A
Construction end-use: B

Event description

Employee dies while installing hinges in fall from balcony

Investigation abstract

At 4:50 a.m. on June 30, 2022, an employee was exchanging factory installed hinges with a different color hinge on apartment balcony doors. The balcony doors are less than 8 feet from the edge of each balcony. Some of the balconies did not offer workers protection from falls. The distance from next lowest level to the balconies edges were between 10-feet 8 7/8 inches and 42-feet 8 1/2 inches. The employee fell to hardened concrete below and died. The employee either fell from a balcony or committed suicide. The reason suicide is suspected is not included in the narrative.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 25 M

Event type
5

Occupation code
567

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