OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14569388
HEAD,ROOF,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,INEXPERIENCE,ROOFER,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,INATTENTION
Event description
Employee injured in fall through rood insulation, later dies
Investigation abstract
At 8:05 a.m. on July 19,1984, Employee #1 was on the roof of the packaging build not in sight. Neither the two coworkers, who were 5 ft away, nor the workers bel ow saw Employee #1 fall through the roofing insulation. Employee #1 was semicons cious and his head, nose, and mouth were bleeding when the ambulance arrived. He sustained massive head injuries and died two days later. Employee #1 had spent only 10 minutes on the roof before the accident. ing at the Simploy plant in Hermiston, OR. Newly employed by Walt Rohle Construc tion Company, this was his first day as a roofer. The foreman had worked with hi m since 5:00 a.m. on another job at the site. With that finished, they began ass isting two roofers who were laying down new 30 ft steel sheets. The foreman stoo d at one end, demonstrating how to pull up the old 30 ft long roofing material. Employee #1 then went to the opposite end of the 30 ft roof sheet. There was a 3 0 ft by 30 in. section of exposed insulation to his right, which Employee #1 had been warned about. The foreman pulled at his end then realized Employee #1 was
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 24 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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