OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221503113

MARK RICHARD CONSTRUCTION, INC.

OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, MI— 2022-10-05T00:00:00

Event: Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Carpenter, Construction, Defect, Defective, Defective Equipment, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Installing, Residential Construction, Scaffold, Soffit, Walking Surface, Work Surface
NAICS: 238130
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #346265028
Employer profile: MARK RICHARD CONSTRUCTION, INC.
Summary number: 221503113
Report ID: 0552651
Project type: A
Construction end-use: B

Event description

Employee falls due to broken scaffold platform, later dies

Investigation abstract

At 11:30 a.m. on October 5, 2022, an employee and a coworker were installing soffit on a 20-foot metal scaffold platform. The 2-by-6 support lumber for the scaffold platform broke causing the scaffold platform to fall. The employee fell backwards over the side of the building approximately 20 feet to the ground. He died the next day at the hospital. There was no fall protection in use.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 57 M

Event type
5

Occupation code
567

Fall distance
20

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