OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #604181
ROOF,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,WALKING BACKWARD
Event description
Employee killed in fall from roof
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was on a roof performing built-up roofing. Two other employees were rolling out a sheet of single ply, modified bitumen. The employee lifted up the roof warning line and began to roll out the single ply as he walked backward. He fell approximately 30 feet to the ground and he died.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 34 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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