A Stagehand Falls from the Ceiling of an Amphitheater

Details

• Personal Author:
  Cierpich, Hank ; Harrison, Robert ; Styles, Laura
• Corporate Authors:
  California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA/FACE) ; California. Department of Public Health. Occupational Health Branch
• Description:
  A stagehand died when he fell approximately 60 feet from the ceiling of an amphitheater to the floor below. The victim was removing the decorations from a recent event held at the incident scene. He climbed over the guard rail of the ceiling catwalk, walked on top of an air conditioning duct, then stepped onto a false ceiling tile to remove a suspended decoration. The false ceiling panel collapsed under his weight and he fell to the carpet-covered concrete floor below. The victim was not wearing any fall protection. His supervisor was working on the floor below. The CA/FACE investigator determined that, in order to prevent future falls, employers should ensure that: 1. Employees working at elevated heights wear fall protection when necessary. 2. Employees are properly supervised when working at elevated heights. 3. A site-specific fall protection plan is designed and implemented for work to be performed at elevated heights.
• Subjects:
  Accidental Falls Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Occupational Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Fall-protection Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 9 Safety-equipment Safety-practices Training Traumatic-injuries
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Falls ; Hispanic
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE12CA005
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-8
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20045601
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2015-102768
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE 12CA005, 2014 Apr ; :1-8
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• Performing Organization:
  California Department of Public Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  71 - Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  2005/07/01
• End Date:
  2026/06/30
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:df07ecda5c794700af8d8ec6305d345b9a5e9ff6c4f87ef41bf7cb2f9fba437477f719fd65b8b896bbb295e22ee81f0297856d3a24c1e3ad1e7d1d28fcc78e78
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/165117/cdc_165117_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 670.15 KB ]