Versaggi Construction

Description

Jose Plancarte died after falling 18.5 feet from scaffolding onto a concrete basement floor below. He was not wearing any fall protection. The scaffolding did not have guardrails; rather, Plancarte had built a nailed bracket scaffold and used two scaffold planks to access a window. Cal/OSHA determined that the construction company had failed to provide fall training to its workers at the site. Also, the foreman was aware that Plancarte had built the prohibited scaffolding, which violated the employer's own safety program.

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