OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221544406

M & M INSULATION INC

RUSKIN, FL— 2023-03-08T00:00:00

Event: Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Caster, Competent Person, Concrete Floor, Construction, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Guardrail, Head, Laceration, Lack of Work Procedures, Mobile Scaffold, Puncture, Puncture Wound, Residential Construction, Safety Device, Struck Against, Work Surface
NAICS: 238310
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #346552037
Employer profile: M & M INSULATION INC
Summary number: 221544406
Report ID: 0420600
Project type: A
Construction end-use: A

Event description

Employee dies of head injury in fall from unguarded scaffold

Investigation abstract

At 10:15 a.m. on March 8, 2023, an employee working as an installer for an insulation contractor was installing insulation while standing on a mobile scaffold. The scaffold had no guards on the top platform and no locked wheel casters. While reaching above himself, the mobile scaffold wheels rolled and slid from beneath the employee. The employee fell approximately 6-foot-8-inches to the concrete ground below landing on his back. The employee sustained lacerations and punctures to the back of his head and died.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 32 M

Event type
5

Occupation code
7016

Fall distance
6

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