OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14410096
JAMES MCFARLAND
SUGARLAND, TX·
Event description
Employee dies in fall from second-story roof
Investigation abstract
At approximately 2:00 p.m. on July 21, 1988, Employee #1 and four coworkers were decking the second-story roof of a house, when it started to rain. At approxima tely 2:30 p.m., the four coworkers came down from the roof because of the slippe ry conditions. Employee #1 continued to work, nailing the last piece of decking in place when he slipped and fell to the wet ground. He suffered a broken neck a nd was transported by EMS to Polly Ryan Hospital in Richmond, TX. He was pronoun ced dead at 3:56 p.m.
Victim
-
#1 Fatality Age 49 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 20
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 17
- Task assigned
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.