OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #521427
ROOF,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,FALL
Event description
Employee falls from roof of house under construction
Investigation abstract
At approximately 11:25 a.m. on January 2, 1990, Employee #1 was laying cedar sha ke on a 6:12 pitched roof of a single family residential construction project. H e fell approximately 20 feet from the roof. Only chicken boards (horizontal 2 by 4s) were used for fall protection.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 22
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 8
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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