OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221489206

SWINERTON BUILDERS

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA— 2022-08-15T00:00:00

Event: Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Concrete Slab, Cut, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Head, Removing, Scissor lift, Shoring, Tie Wire, Tips Over, Wall
NAICS: 236220
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #346150071
Employer profile: SWINERTON BUILDERS
Summary number: 221489206
Report ID: 0950641
Project type: A
Construction end-use: C

Event description

Employee is killed when scissor lift tips over

Investigation abstract

At 10:45 a.m. on August 15, 2022, an employee was removing wall shoring when he cut the ties supporting the wall form and the form leaned into a scissor lift he was working from. The scissor lift tipped over, and the employee fell onto the concrete slab. The employee died due to traumatic head injury.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 36 M

Event type
5

Occupation code
567

Fall distance
13

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