OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14296396
AMERICAN ENERGY SAVERS INC
LANDOVER, MD·
Event description
CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYEE KILLED IN FALL THROUGH SKYLIGHT
Investigation abstract
EMPLOYEES #1-#3 WERE ON A ROOF INSTALLING THE FINAL COVERING OF THERMO SEAL. EMP LOYEES #1 AND #2 WERE ON THE DOUBLE HOSE LINE SPRAYING THERMO SEAL WHILE EMPLOYE E #1 WAS ON THE SINGLE HOSE LINE SPRAYING GRANULES. WHILE BACKING UP (SO AS NOT TO WALK ON THE FINISHED PRODUCT) AWAY FROM THE ROOF EDGE, EMPLOYEE #1 BACKED INT O A RAISED DOME TYPE SKYLIGHT, LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT. T HE 24 FOOT, 9 INCH FALL TO A CONCRETE FLOOR WAS FATAL.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 595
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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