OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14348163
ANDERSON STEEL ERECTION INC
SAVANNAH, GA—
Event description
Employee killed in fall from roof
Investigation abstract
At approximately 8:30 a.m. on June 14, 1984, Employee #1 and three coworkers had 41 ft to the ground. He suffered a compound fracture of the arm, fractured ribs , a punctured lung, and a ruptured liver and died of a fractured skull. been working for about five minutes on the sloped sheetmetal roof of a new stee l building that measured 562 ft long by 120 ft wide by 61 ft high (41 ft high at the eaves). They were 99 percent finished laying the sheet metal ridge cap alon g the 562 ft long peak. At about 8:00 a.m. the employees had been instructed to use their safety belts; it had rained around 4:30 to 5:00 a.m. that morning and the roof was still wet. One coworker, who was using a screw gun, was tied off. T wo other coworkers were standing by the peak and talking. Employee #1, who was w alking across the roof toward a ladder access, slid down the metal roof and fell
Victims (3)
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#1 Fatality Age 24 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 17
- 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
-
#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
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