OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221563083

A. MALEK CONTRACTING, LLC

BROOKLYN, NY— 2023-04-12T00:00:00

Event: Blunt force trauma, Concrete, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Head, Scaffold
NAICS: 238140
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #346637705
Employer profile: A. MALEK CONTRACTING, LLC
Summary number: 221563083
Report ID: 0215000
Project type: C
Construction end-use: B

Event description

Employee is killed in fall from top of stair rail

Investigation abstract

At 9:00 a.m. on April 12, 2023, an employee and the Site Foreman climbed onto the stair rails of the building's entrance stairway and held onto the scaffold's second tier frame with one hand, to place planks on the scaffold's third tier above, with the other hand. While performing scaffold erection, the employee fell approximately 3 feet and hit his head on the concrete steps below. The employee was killed due to blunt force trauma to head.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 56 M

Event type
5

Occupation code
7010

Fall distance
3

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