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Two Laborers Die From A Scaffolding Fall Inside A Water Tank, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Two Laborers Die From A Scaffolding Fall Inside A Water Tank, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Fatality Case Reports--Falls
Two 20 year-old laborers died after falling approximately 25 feet from suspension scaffolding while preparing the inside of a municipal water tank for painting. Neither laborer was wearing fall personal protection equipment at the time of the fatal incident. The laborers were preparing the inside of a 200,000-gallon water tank for painting when one end of the scaffolding dropped after a support cable slipped. The job foreman arrived at the job site and entered the tank to check on the laborers. He found both laborers on the tank floor. Laborer 1 had respiratory vital signs but Laborer 2 did not. …
Brick Mason Dies From Fall Through Scaffolding, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Brick Mason Dies From Fall Through Scaffolding, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Fatality Case Reports--Falls
A 62 year-old male brick mason (victim) died after he fell approximately 55 feet through masonry scaffolding. He worked for a masonry subcontracting company contracted to do the masonry work on a new building. The victim was performing ongoing work laying brick at the construction site. At approximately 7:15 AM the victim entered the building he was bricking and ascended to the 4th floor where he reached his workstation. He stepped out of an opening from the building onto the scaffolding outside. As he did so, he stepped over two mason boards (20 inches combined width), which were closest to …
Lumber Company Employee Falls 48" From Storage Rack To His Death, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Lumber Company Employee Falls 48" From Storage Rack To His Death, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Fatality Case Reports--Falls
In October 1998, a 58-year-old male truck driver/yard worker died of traumatic head injuries when he fell 48" from a storage rack. The employee had climbed onto the storage rack to retrieve 3/4" round molding, 8 feet in length for a customer to load into his truck. The employee placed his feet on pine boards that were being stored on the middle row and was trying to retrieve molding being stored above (approximately 9 feet off the floor). After he cut the bundle string to release the individual molding pieces, he began to pull the pieces out which were being …
Electrician Dies In 6-Foot Fall From Ladder, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Electrician Dies In 6-Foot Fall From Ladder, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Fatality Case Reports--Falls
A 51-year-old male electrician (the victim) died after falling approximately six feet to the concrete floor of a fertilizer plant. The victim had been doing electrical work while standing on an aluminum extension ladder at a switch box attached to a steel post near a rear exit of the plant. His co-worker, who was approximately 20 feet away, heard him hit the floor, but did not see him fall. The co-worker ran for help. A 911 call was placed at 8:46 am, and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) personnel arrived in three minutes. The victim was transported to the local hospital, …
Welder Dies After 30-Foot Fall From Steel Structure, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Welder Dies After 30-Foot Fall From Steel Structure, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Fatality Case Reports--Falls
A 31-year-old welder working at a construction site died after falling 30 feet. The victim, along with two co-workers, was on an I-beam structure preparing to weld handrails when the incident occurred. The victim informed his two co-workers that he was going to talk with another person on the crew and left the area. He was wearing a hard hat, full-body safety harness with two shock-absorbing lanyards, and steel-toed shoes. He went down one level and crossed a roped-off area, stepping onto a steel-grate floor. The unsecured flooring moved, and the victim fell 30 feet to the dirt floor below. …
Maintenance Worker Killed In 25-Foot Fall From I-Beam, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Maintenance Worker Killed In 25-Foot Fall From I-Beam, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Fatality Case Reports--Falls
A 25-year-old maintenance worker at a steel distribution company died as the result of a fall from a steel I-beam he had repeatedly climbed to reach the top of a disabled crane. This worker and another had been attempting to repair the crane, and had found it necessary to climb up and down several times for various reasons (see below). Each time the victim had shimmied down and back up the I-beam rather than using the fixed ladder some distance away. When the fall occurred, he was on his way back up and somehow lost his grip on the beam. …
Worker Killed In Fall From Oil Tank, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Worker Killed In Fall From Oil Tank, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Fatality Case Reports--Falls
A 50-year-old male was killed when he fell from the top of a 12-foot high oil tank. The victim was an oil gauger for a company that transports crude oil. His job was to obtain samples of the oil to check its quality. On the day of the incident he was to check the oil at a site located about 100 miles from his office. He was an experienced gauger and had been to this site many times before. This company owned four cylinder-shaped oil tanks. Three of the tanks were 15 feet high and one was 12 feet high …
Demolition Foreman Dies After 35-Foot Fall Through Hole In Flat Roof, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Demolition Foreman Dies After 35-Foot Fall Through Hole In Flat Roof, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Fatality Case Reports--Falls
A 51-year-old male demolition foreman (the victim) died from head injuries sustained when he fell through a hole in a flat roof to a concrete floor. At about 3:25 pm the victim was on the roof to retrieve a four by eight sheet of 3/4" plywood to be used at another location on the plant site. After moving the plywood, partially exposing the hole, the victim fell 35 feet to a concrete floor. There were no witnesses to the fall. He was found by the site supervisor approximately one-half hour later. Emergency medical personnel were called. Co-workers at the scene …