The employer owned the hoist that failed in this incident. According to the company owner, training for his employees was done mainly through on-the-job- training. A copy of their IIPP was not made available. The decedent had been employed with this company only nine months, but according to the company owner, had 12 years of previous window washing experience.Īccording to the owner, the company had a written Injury and Illness Prevention Program (IIPP) with the required elements, even though they had only six employees. The decedent and one other employee were the only employees at the site on the day of the incident. The employer of the decedent was a small window washing company that operated year-round and had been in business for 23 years. On April 18, 2000, the CA/FACE investigator interviewed the owner of the company. The CA/FACE investigator learned of this incident on Apthrough the California Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) office in the area where the incident took place. The primary and secondary brake of the hoist also failed causing the swing stage scaffold to drop to a vertical position. The center shaft of the electric hoist operating one side of the swing stage scaffold failed. On March 29, 2000, at approximately 2:20 p.m., a 32 year-old male window washer died when he fell approximately 60 feet from a swing stage scaffold onto the pavement below.
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