OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #735837
GENERAL STEEL CONTRACTORS, INC.
HOPKINSVILLE, KY·
Event description
Employee hospitalized after fall through roof opening
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was spot welding corrugated metal roof panels to bar joists on a thi rd story roof. He fell 26 ft through an opening to the ground floor. Employee #1 required hospitalization.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 24 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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