OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #517417
INSTALLING,ROOF,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,UNTRAINED
Event description
Employee dies after falling from roof
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a 17-year-old student, had been hired as a laborer/helper to work w ng had been provided by the general contractor for any of the members of the roo fing crew. No motion-stopping system or safety monitoring system was implemented . Workplace safety had been discussed with the brother and father of Employee #1 at the time of their initial interview, four days before the accident. A job su perintendent for the general contractor had visited the site the day before the accident to ensure that items such as fire extinguishers and hard hats were pres ent and in use. ith his brother, the foreman, and his father, the kettleman. They were performin g built-up roofing work on a 2,000 square foot roof on a Saturday. It was Employ ee #1's first time working on a roof. The brother and father, both experienced, were newly hired by the general contractor who needed a crew for a few jobs. The general contractor was not normally engaged in built-up roofing activity; howev er, he had installed built-up roofing previously during the company's 17 years o f operation. Shortly after lunch, Employee #1 was rolling out paper near the edg e and tacking it down when he fell four stories and was killed. No formal traini
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 17 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 2
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