OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14223523
BLACKMORE & BUCKNER ROOFING INC
LINTON, IN·
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED WHEN HE FELL THROUGH A ROOF OPENING
Investigation abstract
AT ABOUT 3:30 PM ON OCTOBER 28, 1986, EMPLOYEE #1 AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WERE INST ALLING BUILT-UP ROOFING ON A ROOF WITH 11 ROOF OPENINGS. EACH OPENING WAS 67 1/8 INCHES BY 74 1/2 INCHES. EMPLOYEE #1 FELL THROUGH ONE OF THE ROOF OPENINGS TO A CONCRETE SURFACE 18 FEET BELOW. HE SUFFERED SEVERE HEAD INJURIES WHICH REQUIRED HIS EVACUATION TO A HOSPITAL. HE DIED THERE TWO DAYS LATER WITHOUT REGAINING CO NSCIOUSNESS. THE SECOND EMPLOYEE, ALTHOUGH WORKING WITHIN 10 FEET OF EMPLOYEE #1 , HAD HIS HEAD DOWN AND DID NOT OBSERVE EMPLOYEE #1'S ACTIONS UNTIL HE HEARD HIS NAME CALLED. BY THEN EMPLOYEE #1 WAS ALREADY FALLING THROUGH THE ROOF OPENING.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 595
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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