A construction crew was preparing to pour concrete into forms. A laborer climbed a ladder on one side of a form and stepped over the form to stand on an unguarded scaffold on the opposite side. He was carrying two hand trowels and a brush to be used by other workers after the concrete was poured. He fell, striking his head on a concrete slab at ground level and receiving fatal injuries. The standard guardrails that could have prevented this fall were missing from the platform, as were the toeboards. The unguarded scaffold should have been dismantled or effectively barricaded to […]

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