OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #823252
ORNDORFF ROOFING & SHEET METAL CO., INC.
SUITLAND, MD·
Event description
Employee injured in 30 ft fall from roof
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was part of a four man crew engaged in built up roofing work on a fl at roof that was 45 ft wide by 218 ft long and approximately 30 ft above the gro und. He was unfolding a sheet of synthetic rubber that measured 20 ft by 45 ft a nd was walking backward along the roof edge when he fell from the roof at an are a where the roof indented approximately 2 ft toward the center. Employee #1 brok e his pelvis and legs in the fall. None of these employees had received the prop er training, nor were they provided with appropriate fall protection.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 29 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 16
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 595
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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