OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221358880
RICHMOND CONSTRUCTION INC.
BROOKLYN, NY·
Event description
Employee falls from roof and is killed
Investigation abstract
At 8:37 a.m. on May 27, 2021, an employee completed jackhammering a section of roof as part of a demolition job and began to walk along the exposed edge. At some point, a section of the roof that the employee walked on broke apart; the employee fell approximately sixty feet and was killed.
Victim
-
#1 Fatality Age 49 M
- Event type
- 5
- Occupation code
- 869
- Fall distance
- 60
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.