SUPER SKY CONTRACTORS

One employee killed and one injured in scaffold collapse

At approximately 2:15 p.m. on May 31, 1991, Employees #1 and #2 were working fro m an elevated scaffold platform and deck approximately 70 ft above the floor. Ap parently that part of the wood scaffold plank support broke, putting shock and a heavy load on a bottom chord that was bearing a floor truss used to support a w ork deck. The truss rotated out, causing part of the platform to collapse, the s caffold to tip, and Employees #1 and #2 to be ejected. Employee #1 died of blunt force injuries due to the fall. Employee #2 required hospitalization for numero us bruises, cuts, and stitches and was later released.