OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14368930
GUARDRAIL,ROOF,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,LOST BALANCE
Event description
Employee killed in fall from roof
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was bolting an air cylinder to a damper on an approximately 43 ft hi gh roof of a wastewater treatment building. The work area was approximately 3 ft from the edge of the roof. Employee #1's wrench slipped from the damper cylinde r rod, causing him to fall to the ground. He was killed. Neither guardrails nor other safeguards were in use at the time of the accident.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 61 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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