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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #687624

GEORGE STANLEY ROOFING

Event
ROOF, CONSTRUCTION, FALL, FALL PROTECTION, WALKING BACKWARD
NAICS
000000
Inspection type
Accident-driven
Activity number
#103020921
Employer profile
GEORGE STANLEY ROOFING
Summary number
687624
Report ID
522300

Event description

Employee killed in fall from roof's edge

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was working on a roof with a coworker. He was walking backward towar d the roof's edge when he fell. He hung onto the edge of the roof for a moment, then dropped 22 ft 3 in. to the concrete pad. Employee #1 then fell another 42 i n. off the concrete pad onto a loading ramp. He was killed.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 27 M

    Nature of injury
    21
    Part of body
    4
    Event type
    5
    Source
    8
    Occupation code
    999
    Human factor
    1
    Environmental factor
    13
    Task assigned
    1

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