OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #660050
OLD TIMERS SLATE ROOFING COMPANY, INCORPORATED
BOSTON, MA·
Event description
Employee breaks arm and a leg in fall from roof
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a foreman, was installing new copper on the hip of a slate roof. To reach the last two nails on the roof, he tied a 5/8 in. nylon rope around the c himney and around his waist, then walked the pitched roof to the nails and hamme red them in. While he was walking back, the knot around the chimney became untie d and he slid down the roof and fell to the ground. Employee #1 sustained a brok en arm and leg.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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