Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Report: Three Tower PaintersDie After Falling 1,200 Feet When Riding the Hoist Line, North Carolina, December 3, 1999

摘要

On December 3, 1999, a 40-year-old tower-painting-company owner, his 16-year-oldstepson, and a 19-year-old employee died after falling 1,200 feet when the hoist line on a pothole capstan hoist used to raise them up the side of a 1,500-foot-high radio tower began slipping around the capstan, causing the hoist operator to lose control of the hoist line. On December 7, 1999, officials of the North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Administration (NCHOSHA) notified the Division of Safety Research of this multiple fatality. On December 21 through 23, 1999, a DSR occupational health and safety specialist conducted an investigation of the incident. The incident was reviewed with the NCOSHA compliance officers assigned to the case, the tower owner's engineering services representative, the owner of the company that maintained the county's hardware on the tower, the owner of the company that installed the new coaxial cable, the county coroner, and the county sheriff's office.