OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14547707
INDEPENDENT STEEL ERECTORS
SEWARD, AK·
Event description
Employee injured in fall from edge of roof
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was operating a roof runner seaming machine on a 28 ft high roof. Th e operation required him to reach over the edge of the roof and roll the seaming machine out onto a wooden jig so it could start at the edge of the roof. Someth ing slipped, and Employee #1 and the machine fell to the ground. He suffered sev eral broken bones. Employee #1 was not wearing any type of fall arrest system, n or was any other type of fall protection provided.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 22 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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