OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #731760
FRACTURE,ROOF,CLEANING,CONSTRUCTION,SKULL,TRIPPED,FALL,FALL PROTECTION
Event description
Employee killed in fall from roof
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was using a pressure sprayer on the granular surfaced, built-up roof of a residential structure. He was on the edge of the southern side and was wal king up the eastern slope to the top of the low-pitched roof when he either trip ped on the peak or simply stepped off the edge. He fell approximately 18 ft to t he patio below and died of a basal skull fracture.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 24 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 595
- Human factor
- 8
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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