OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14330583
FALL,FALL PROTECTION,WORK RULES,INSTALLING,ROOF,CONSTRUCTION
Event description
Employee killed in fall from open-sided roof
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and four coworkers were 33 ft above ground level, applying insulatio hey observed his feet as he fell between the roof area and the insulation. They heard no sounds before, during, or after the fall, in which Employee #1 was kill ed. n and metal roof decking to the roof of a 400 ft by 400 ft storage building. The y had cut a roll of new insulation and laid it on the purlins adjacent to the al ready installed insulation. They had placed planks on the already installed insu lation in order to hold it in place and were preparing to staple the new insulat ion to it. Employee #1 was about 2 ft west of the newly placed insulation and ab out 5 in. away from the already installed insulation and roof decking when the w ind picked the insulation up slightly, moving it away from where he was. The cow orkers on each side of Employee #1 had looked away and, when they looked back, t
Victims (5)
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#1 Fatality Age 55 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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#982 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
-
#983 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
-
#984 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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