OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14485262

BEAM,INSTALLING,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,UNSTABLE POSITION

1988-09-21T00:00:00

Event: BEAM,INSTALLING,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,UNSTABLE POSITION
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 14485262
Report ID: 213600

Event description

Employee killed in fall from roof purlin

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was installing a metal corrugated roof deck. He was straddling a roo f purlin, an I-beam, while attempting to move across the roof's undecked portion to the end of the building to take measurements. Employee #1 was killed when he fell 20 ft 5 in. to the concrete floor.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 43 M

Nature of injury
21

Part of body
19

Event type
5

Source
5

Occupation code
999

Human factor
10

Environmental factor
13

Task assigned
2

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