OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #731273
ROBERT HAINES CO INC
INDPLS, IN—
Event description
Employee killed in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
On January 2, 1985, Employee #1 was was applying caulking to building joints fro m a two point suspension scaffold powered by a Skyclimber, #M416237, #E41362. A fairlead guide fractured, shearing or damaging the 5/16 in. wire rope. The emplo yee's 3/4 in. lanyard failed, allowing him to fall 89 ft 8 in. to a concrete sid ewalk. He died of blunt trauma injury to the thorax and abdomen.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 31 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 563
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 3
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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