OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14252712
FRACTURE,UNSECURED,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,UNSTABLE SURFACE,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,ROOF PANEL
Event description
Employee injured in fall from roof
Investigation abstract
At 2:00 p.m. on April 25, 1989, Employee #1 was installing skylights in the meta l roof of a building. He and two coworkers had placed a skylight and then positi oned a 10 ft long by 39 in. wide metal roof panel in place. Employee #1 had not screwed the panel down, and it slipped when he stepped on it. Both he and the pa nel fell 22 ft to the concrete floor. Employee #1 was hospitalized with multiple fractures.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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