OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14458418
ROOF,UNSECURED,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,ROOF OPENING,UNGUARDED
Event description
Employee injured in 29 ft fall through roof opening
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and a coworker were moving a pile of 4 by 8 sheets of plywood from a roof. They picked up the last sheet and started walking when Employee #1 steppe d into a 4 ft square roof opening. He fell 29 ft to the concrete ground floor, l anding on a small pile of 4 in. pipe. The stack of plywood had been covering the opening in the roof.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 29 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 869
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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