OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14400469
SKYLIGHT,CONSTRUCTION,TRIPPED,FALL,INATTENTION
Event description
Employee killed in fall through skylight
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, age 18, and a coworker were carrying a 4 ft by 8 ft sheet of insula tion board on a third floor roof when Employee #1 tripped over the lower corner of a skylight. He fell directly into the skylight, crashed through the 1/8 in. t hick Plexiglas dome cover, and continued to fall 32 ft to the terrazzo tile floo r. Employee #1 was killed instantly.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 18 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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