OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14485692
COMMERCIAL MAINTENANCE
DEPEW, NY·
Event description
Employee killed in fall from roof
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a roofer, was utilizing stacks of roofing material to access anothe r roof at a higher elevation. When he stepped on an unstable part of the stored material, he lost his balance and fell approximately 10 ft 8 in. onto a concrete shipping dock. Employee #1 suffered multiple injuries to his head and chest, an d was killed. Causal factors of this accident include improper storage of materi als at the edge of the roof and the employee's decision to use this material as a short cut instead of using the access ladder provided.
Victim
-
#1 Fatality Age 58 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.