OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14399562
SKYLIGHT,ROOF,DEMOLITION,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION
Event description
Employee killed in fall through skylight
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was removing roofing material from the roof of a building that was b eing demolished. When he sat down on a plastic dome skylight to smoke, the dome broke and Employee #1 fell approximately 30 feet through the opening to the conc rete floor. He was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 46 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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