OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14423479
HEAD,INSTALLING,ROOF,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,INATTENTION
Event description
Employee killed in fall from roof
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and a coworker had climbed 20 ft to the roof of a house to nail a pi ece of siding onto the house. Employee #1 stepped off the edge of the roof, whic h was 39 in. wide and being used as a work platform, and fell onto a concrete pa tio. He died from injuries to his body and head.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 57 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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