A worker died of a broken neck and skull after he fell 23 feet from a scaffold. He was working part-time as a welder-fitter. He did not have experience in working from a scaffold. Another worker had moved the scaffold into place, but it was not directly under the overhead crane which was to be repaired, so the welder had to lean out from the scaffold to work. The welder was not wearing a safety helmet because it did not fit with his welder's mask. Nor was he wearing fall prevention or fall arrest equipment, although co-workers had advised him to do […]
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