Asbestos Worker Dies in Fall from Scaffold in Indiana

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  A 21-year-old asbestos worker died as a result of injuries sustained in a 12-foot fall from a scaffold. The victim was a member of a six-man crew engaged in the removal of asbestos-contaminated insulation from a series of large ducts on the exterior of an electric power generation plant. The victim was removing asbestos insulation from a large outdoor metal duct approximately 14 feet above the ground. The worksite was accessed by tubular metal scaffolding. The victim was working at the 12 foot level of the scaffold. The scaffold was not decked at this level. Instead, the crew had installed a single 2-inch by 12-inch plank across the tubing. The plank extended beyond the tubing on both sides and was not fastened in position to the tubing. Instead, the crew had driven two nails into each end of the plank at 45 degree angles to hold the plank against the tubing while allowing them to slide the plank along the tubing to various areas where they were working. The nails on one end of the plank had loosened sufficiently to slip free from the scaffold. The weight of the victim on the opposite end of the plank caused the plank to rise up in the air, dropping the victim to the ground below.
• Content Notes:
  Publication Date supplied by FACE program
  
  date does not appear on report.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Asbestos Construction Industry Inorganic Chemicals Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Safety Safety Management

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• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Asbestos-removal Asbestos-workers Construction-Search Injuries Injury-prevention Occupational-accidents Occupational-exposure Occupational-hazards Occupational-health Occupational-safety-programs OSHA Region 5 Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Traumatic-injuries

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Construction ; Falls ; Falls - Construction - Commercial ; Falls - Construction - Scaffolds
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE9013
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Indiana ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  4 pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20024467
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2005-102131
• Citation:
  Morgantown, : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1990
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1989/11/02
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e79a14a773dc0de9a8fcfaa5339d98bf0efca91bfc9fabf815f506b6ecbc68f1fcb8e59216a1214e60644c969f16aaa51c83270069fc905e217181c88d04b7f5
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167327/cdc_167327_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 13.07 KB ]