OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #675074
ROBERTS AND GALLEGOS CO.
AIKEN, SC·
Event description
Employee killed in fall from roof
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was installing tar paper and finishing the plywood sheeting on a gar Employee #1, who was killed, was not wearing fall protection. He had not been tr ained on when to wear it. age roof that had a 10:12 pitch slope in the front and an 8:12 pitch slope in th e back. The roof ranged from 14 ft to 24 ft high at the peak. Employee #1 wanted to cut an overhanging piece of plywood from the edge of the roof. To retrieve a saw, Employee #1 decided to lower an extension cord to a coworker on the ground so that the coworker could tie a saw to the cord and Employee #1could hoist it back up to the roof. There were 2 in. by 4 in. chicken boards nailed to the roof . Employee #1 was standing on the lower one and as he lowered the cord, he start ed to fall. He fell 14 ft and landed head and shoulder first onto the concrete.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 38 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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