OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14429609
MAINTENANCE,WORK RULES,TREE,FALL,FALL PROTECTION
Event description
Employee killed in fall from roof of high-rise building
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was on the roof of a 13 story high-rise building performing maintena nce work on a cooling tower. He was killed when he fell from the roof onto a tre e, then onto the sidewalk.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 53 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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