Maintenance Engineer Dies After Falling 25 Feet From A Collapsing Scaffold

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• Corporate Authors:
  New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE) ; New Jersey. Department of Health and Senior Services. Occupational Health Service
• Description:
  On September 5, 1991, a 57-year-old maintenance engineer was fatally injured after a 25-foot fall from a collapsing scaffold. The incident occurred at a correctional facility after the victim climbed a scaffold in order to fix a separation in the scaffold's sections. As he was lowering the scaffold planks to the ground, the scaffold collapsed, and the victim fell to a concrete gutter. NJDOH FACE investigators concluded that, in order to prevent similar incidents in the future, the following safety guidelines should be followed: 1. Employers must ensure that scaffolds are properly erected and maintained before use. 2. Employers should develop, implement, and enforce a comprehensive safety program that includes training workers in the proper methods of erecting and working from scaffolds. 3. Employers should conduct regularly scheduled and unscheduled safety inspections at each jobsite. 4. Employers should ensure that safety representatives are properly qualified and trained to recognize safety hazards.
• Content Notes:
  Formerly FACE-NJ9111
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-potential Accident-prevention Injuries Injury-prevention Occupational-safety-programs OSHA Region 2 Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-practices Safety-programs Scaffolds Training Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis Work-operations Work-performance Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Falls
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE91NJ015
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  New Jersey ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  4 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026739
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2013-101695
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE 91NJ015, 1991 Dec ; :1-4
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1992
• Performing Organization:
  New Jersey Department of Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  92 - Public Administration - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1991/09/30
• End Date:
  2005/08/31
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:da1ec679acb056cfb3ac5078ddcc70c4e4a368c5e7d42b53aab4ce8d990dd456f30b2b98c3ef2d1b0df94f504c68211f5b9f6a5dc37d40b46147c0a621bb35c8
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/169215/cdc_169215_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 63.93 KB ]