OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #823161
TRACY TEMPORARIES, INC.
ELLICOTT CITY, MD·
Event description
Employee suffers head trauma in fall through skylight
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a temporary laborer, was working for a roofing company. His assignm ent was to help rip off old roofing materials from an 81 ft wide by 145 ft long roof that had 32 skylights. As he was pulling off a piece of the roof material, it tore, and he fell backward 28 ft through a 4 ft by 4 ft 1/8 in. thick acrylic skylight to a concrete floor. Employee #1 suffered massive head trauma and was hospitalized. The skylights had never been replaced on the approximately 21-year -old building.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 18 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 2
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