OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221501133

SCM CONSTRUCTION INC

LENOIR CITY, TN— 2022-09-22T00:00:00

Event: Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Concrete Block, Drain Pipe, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Floor, Head, Lost Balance, Masonry, Masonry Wall, Measuring Device, Metal, Metal Shaft, Mobile Scaffold, Scaffold, Tip, Tips Over, Wall
NAICS: 238130
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #346256118
Employer profile: SCM CONSTRUCTION INC
Summary number: 221501133
Report ID: 0454714
Project type: A
Construction end-use: C

Event description

Employee is killed in fall from scaffold

Investigation abstract

At 9:30 a.m. on September 22, 2022, an employee was making measurements from a baker scaffold in order to install metal studs into a block wall. The employee was using a scooting motion on the scaffold platform with unlocked wheels to propel him to a new location down the wall when the left front wheel fell through some tape that was covering a floor drain. The scaffold tipped and the employee lost his balance and fell backward five feet seven inches to the concrete floor, hitting the back of his neck and his head. The employee died due to his injuries.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 42 M

Event type
5

Occupation code
869

Fall distance
6

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