OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #694075
DUNMAR MOVING SYSTEMS
BENT MOUNTAIN, VA·
Event description
EMPLOYEE FELL THROUGH ROOF TO CONCRETE FLOOR
Investigation abstract
ON SEPTEMBER 15, 1986, AT APPROXIMATELY 10:30 AM, EMPLOYEES OF CABELL SHEET META L ROOFING, INC., WERE RE-ROOFING A BOILER BUILDING AT THE GLEN LYNN POWER HOUSE, GLEN LYNN, VIRGINIA. THE ROOF IS COMPOSED OF CONCRETE PANELS PLACED ON BAR JOIS TS. THEY HAD REMOVED THE OLD ROOFING AND WERE SWEEPING THE ROOF BEFORE PLACING A NEW COVER ON IT. EMPLOYEE #1 STEPPED ON A SECTION OF THE CONCRETE PANEL WHICH B ROKE. HE FELL THROUGH THE PANEL, 65 FEET TO THE CONCRETE FLOOR. HE WAS KILLED.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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