OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #690982
PAULSEN ROOFING INC.
CLEARFIELD, UT·
Event description
Employee breaks hip in fall through roof
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, an SOS employee working for Paulsen Roofing, was part of a crew tha t was reroofing a 40-year-old building. He was talking to two foremen, who were about to sign him out for the day. While the one of the foremen went to get a pe n to sign out Employee #1, the other foreman and Employee #1 started to walk awa y. Instead of stepping from some plywood onto the roof support, Employee #1 step ped onto some Sheetrock. He broke through three layers of Sheetrock, falling 20 ft and fracturing his hip.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 46 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 14
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 595
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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