OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221526718

D & E BUILDING, INC.

KALISPELL, MT— 2023-01-04T00:00:00

Event: Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Head, Installing, Scaffold, Scaffold Collapse, Truss
NAICS: 238130
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #346423221
Employer profile: D & E BUILDING, INC.
Summary number: 221526718
Report ID: 0830100
Project type: A
Construction end-use: A

Event description

Employee is killed in fall from scaffold

Investigation abstract

At 4:00 p.m. on January 4, 2023, an employee was working from a scaffold at approximately 8 feet above a concrete surface installing wooden trusses when a scaffold brace failed and the scaffold collapsed. The employee fell from the scaffold and landed on his head and suffered fatal head injuries.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 61 M

Event type
5

Occupation code
7004

Fall distance
8

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