OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #687624
ROOF,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,WALKING BACKWARD
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
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#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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