OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14497739

AQUATONICS INC

HOUSTON, TX— 1984-05-25T00:00:00

Event: ROOF,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,WALKING BACKWARD
NAICS: 000000
Inspection type: Accident-driven
Activity number: #1613975
Employer profile: AQUATONICS INC
Summary number: 14497739
Report ID: 626600

Event description

Employee killed in 55 ft fall from roof

Investigation abstract

Employee was #1 was lapping rubber sheets on a low-pitched roof. He was backing up, pulling tape off the rubber sheets, when he walked backward off the roof. He fell 55 ft and was killed.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 27 M

Nature of injury
12

Part of body
13

Event type
5

Source
8

Occupation code
999

Human factor
1

Environmental factor
18

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.