OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #565622
SKYLIGHT,GUARDRAIL,ALCOHOL,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,INTOXICATED,FALL,FALL PROTECTION
Event description
Employee dies after fall through skylight
Investigation abstract
On March 23, 1990, Employee #1 and five temporary labor employees, employed by P ate. He peered through the opening, and saw Employee #1, a Tracy laborer, lying on the floor 26 ft below. Employee #1 had allegedly been drinking and was also w earing radio headphones. Employee #1 died after apparently placing himself on a skylight that broke under his weight and caused him to fall approximately 26 fee t. The medical examiner stated that when he arrived at the site Employee #1 reek ed of alcohol. The employer had failed to provide guardrails, screens, or other fall protection for the skylights. hoenix Roofing, Inc. through Tracy Labor, and approximately eight employees of P hoenix Roofing, Inc., were performing built-up roofing work on the roof of a com mercial warehouse that measured 272 ft wide by 585 ft long. There was an expansi on joint approximately midway down the length of the building. The employees wer e working on the south half of the roof and were near completion. They were seal ing the flashing and had removed most of the materials, tools, and other debris when one of the employees from Phoenix Roofing went to the north end to get a to ol and noticed that a plastic skylight dome was broken. He went over to investig
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 35 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 869
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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