OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14497713
ROOF COLLAPSE,ROOF,WORK RULES,STORAGE TANK,FALL,FALL PROTECTION
Event description
Employee killed in 46 ft fall through roof of storage tank
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was removing sections of a sheet steel roof from a chemical storage tank. He was at about the center of the roof when that section gave way. He fell approximately 46 ft to the floor of the tank and was killed. No form of fall pr otection was in use.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 55 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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