OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221530702

MUSTANG ELECTRIC

HORSESHOE BAY, TX— 2023-01-12T00:00:00

Event: Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Guardrail, Head, Mobile Scaffold, Neck, Outrigger, Scaffold, Tips Over
NAICS: 238210
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #346440225
Employer profile: MUSTANG ELECTRIC
Summary number: 221530702
Report ID: 0625400
Project type: A
Construction end-use: A

Event description

Employee is killed in fall from mobile scaffold

Investigation abstract

At 12:00 noon on January 12, 2023, an employee was pulling wire on top of a twelve-foot six-inch mobile metal scaffold with no fall protection, no guardrails, and no outriggers installed. The scaffold tipped over and the employee fell, striking his body on the metal scaffold and then on the cement floor. When the employee fell, he struck his head and neck and was killed.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 42 M

Event type
5

Occupation code
577

Fall distance
12

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