OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14292163
ROOF,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,BRAIN
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED BY FALL FROM CANOPY ROOF
Investigation abstract
At 8:30 a.m on Wednesday, July 26, 1989, Employee #1 was working on top of a can opy or roof approximately 16 foot 6 inches off the ground replacing a section of gutter. A coworker left the canopy roof to check an electrical breaker. When th e coworker returned, he found Employee #1 lying on the ground face down. There w ere no witnesses to the accident. Employee #1 was attended to by the local rescu e squad and transported to the local hospital. Employee #1 was then transported to Duke Medical Center. Employee #1 died on July 31 of brain injury.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 45 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 865
- Human factor
- 17
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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