OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #660191
QUALITY CONSTRUCTION, INC.
DRACUT, MA·
Event description
Employee breaks both ankles in fall from roof
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was on the roof of a building nailing a piece of plywood into positi on with a nail gun when he slipped and fell 21 ft to the ground, breaking both a nkles. There was no catch platform installed and Employee #1 did not use a safet y belt.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 31 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 11
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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