OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14413603
HEAD,ROOF,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,LOST BALANCE
Event description
Employee dies of head injuries after falling from roof
Investigation abstract
At approximately 9:50 a.m. on October 31, 1989, Employee #1 was attempting to st next day at 5:25 p.m. raighten a 1/2 in. steel banding that was stretched across 250 ft wide structura l steel bar joists approximately 32 ft above the concrete floor. No fall protect ion of any kind was provided. Employee #1 had walked from the metal deck roof ar ea onto the bar joist to reach the steel banding that had snagged and would not shake loose. He reached over and picked up the bands and was tugging on them whe n they came loose and he fell backward. He fell to the concrete, landing on his feet in a standing position, then falling on his left side. His hard hat fell of f at some point during the fall. He died of traumatic massive head injuries the
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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