OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #813691
DECKING,ROOF OPENING,ROOF,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION
Event description
Employee killed in fall from roof
Investigation abstract
At approximately 10:00 a.m. on May 1, 1989, Employee #1 was placing sheet metal decking on a roof. He had to step outside the placed roof decking over an 18 in. gap between the deck roof section and the stack of roofing to get a piece of 22 gauge, 3 ft by 16 ft, sheet metal decking. Instead, he stepped into the gap, fa lling approximately 33 ft to the ground. Employee #1 died of multiple traumatic injuries.
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 42 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 8
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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