Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 77569.015 - Employee Is Hung When Safety Harness Fails

Accident Summary Nr: 77569.015 -- Report ID: 0355116 -- Event Date: 06/21/2015
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1072394.015	06/20/2015		541330	Augusta County Service Authority

Abstract: At 1:30 p.m. on June 21, 2015, an employee was conducting an inspection of a water tower and used a Miller body harness, attached to a Miller Manyard ll - two leg shock absorbing lanyard. The employee was between the 2nd rest platform and the top of the water tower when he fell, between 76 and 113 feet. The employee was wearing fall arrest protection equipment and it was attached to a ladder climbing safety trolley. The connection was made to provide a positioning device. The positioning device requires an additional fall arrest system to be used in conjunction, and the equipment in use was not modified to be sufficient strength to handle a person and tool weight greater than 310 lbs. The force of the fall, weight, and incompatible parts shredded the harness and the employee was found dead hanging with the harness tangled around his neck.

Keywords: Asphyxiated, Equipment Failure, Fall, Fall Protection, Ladder, PPE, Water Tower

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Tower, tank, storage elevator		New project or new addition				113	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1072394.015	47	M	Fatality		Engineering technicians, n.e.c.	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Other Activities-Installing Ornamental And Archite Fatality Cause:

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