Accident: 952002 - Killed In Fall From Edge Of Roof

Employee #1 was repairing the gutters at the edge of an the roof of a three-story building. His foot was braced against an ice cleat on the metal roof when the cleat broke and he fell approximately 70 ft to the sidewalk. Employee #1 died of massive trauma.

construction, fall, repair, roof, unstable position, equipment failure, work rules

Accident: 656173 - Knee Bruised In Same-Level Fall

Employee #1 was assigned to adjust some stock at the top of a pallet, which required that he be raised from a guarded work platform. He had on a full body harness and was attached by a lanyard and chain to the top rail of the guardrail system. This allowed Employee #1 to exit the work platform and climb onto the pallet to adjust the stock. He was standing on the pallet when a piece of wood broke and he fell through up to his crotch. Employee #1 sustained bruises to his knee.

fall, pallet, equipment failure, knee, contusion, elevated work plat, board

Accident: 812685 - One Killed, One Injured When Traffic Light Unit Falls

Employees #1 and #2 were on an eight-person crew that was installing a traffic signal light with a cross-arm extending over a traffic island. The unit was lifted into position using the boom of a digger truck, and four employees were holding tag guide lines at the outer end of the cross-arm as it was raised. The load line broke, and the traffic light unit fell, striking Employees #1 and #2. Employee #1 was killed and Employee #2 sustained injuries that required hospitalization.

falling object, equipment failure, head, struck by, tag line, installing, load line, construction, hoisting mechanism

Accident: 170205165 - Injured In Fall From Scaffold

At approximately 3:15 p.m. on October 18, 2000, Employee #1, an engineer for Pankow Residential Builders, and a pump operator were using a remote control box to operate a concrete boom pump. Employee #1 was standing on top of a rolling scaffold, assisting laborers in moving the extra length of concrete hose over to the next wall. The boom pump operator was raising the boom slightly to help move the hose when the boom caught the scaffold railing and started to lift it off the ground. Employee #1 jumped off the scaffold, grabbing the top rail of the adjacent wall. The railing broke and he fell backward, away from the wall, striking the back of his head on a concrete slab.

construction, scaffold, equipment failure, unstable position, guardrail, fall, head, struck against, boom, mech mat handling

Accident: 201793288 - Injured In Fall From Amusement Ride

A church had hired a recreational services company to set up a fair with some amusement rides. A member of the public, a 16-year-old girl, was riding in a swing ride called a "Psycho Swing." The church had provided two volunteers to operate the swing. The swing was one-person, manually operated rigid swing, which can perform 360-degree revolutions. It was equipped with a braking device and had a strap on the left side. The rider, wearing a harness and holding onto the two vertical supports, stands on a platform that revolves around an axle. One of the volunteers hooked the swing's snaphooks to the harness on the girl and clamped her feet to the platform. The girl did a loop, went forward and backward, then slipped off, flipping and landing chest first, face down. She was still wearing the harness when she landed. She was hospitalized for her injuries. (No employees were injured in the accident.)

amusement ride, amuse park/carnival, fall, fall protection, equipment failure

Accident: 170009252 - Two Employees Fall From Broken Scaffold

At 3:30 p.m., Employees #1 and #2 were working on a scaffold that was supported by metal brackets welded around the inside of a water tank under construction. One of the brackets broke, and Employees #1 and #2 fell. They both sustained leg injuries, for which they were hospitalized. Prior to the accident, a coworker had welded the brackets; following the accident, the foreman was assigned responsibility for welding brackets to the tank wall.

scaffold, broken weld, fall, elevated work plat, water tank, construction, equipment failure, unsecured