OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14444897
ROOF,WORK RULES,FIRE,CONSTRUCTION,INEXPERIENCE,SKULL,FALL,FALL PROTECTION
Event description
Employee dies after fall through transite corrugated roof
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was installing a skylight on the ground level of a building. When he nguisher fell through the 0.3125-in. transite roof and between the 42-in.-on-cen ter girders that were 6 ft, 2 in. below the ridge. (He left a 26-in. by 31-in. h ole in the roof.) Employee #1 fell 25 ft, 10 in. to a concrete floor. He struck the floor face first, suffering massive skull injuries, brain contusions, 10 bro ken ribs, spinal column and wrist fractures, lacerations, and abrasions. Employe e #1 was killed. Fighting fires was not part of Employee #1's job responsibiliti es. looked up he saw that the roof that was being replaced by coworkers on another building was on fire. The building was 60 ft wide, with a 1:4 pitched roof that measured 16 ft, 5.375 in. from the ground to the eaves. Seeing no one in the vic inity of the fire, Employee #1 went about 450 yd to the company truck, took a 30 -lb fire extinguisher, and climbed a secured extension ladder to the roof. He wo rked his way around steel beams and girders above the east side of the roof, tak ing the shortest route to the fire on the west side. Employee #1 had crossed the ridge of the roof and was starting down the west face when he and the fire exti
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 54 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 653
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 2
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