OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #823708
OAK CONTRACTING CO. INC.
ELLICOTT DRIVE, MD·
Event description
Employee killed in fall through roof opening
Investigation abstract
Employees of Oak Contracting Company started the work day by carrying an electri o months before the accident, pre-employment safety and health training was limi ted. c saw and other related tools to the roof of a building. In an attempt to obtain electrical power for his tools, Employee #1 decided to drop a flexible cord thr ough a 3 ft 6 in. by 5 in. roof opening that had been cut out to receive an air conditioning unit and that was nailed shut with a 4 ft by 8 ft 5/8 in. plywood p anel. While trying to lift the plywood cover, the employee lost his balance, wen t through the opening, and fell 13 ft (1/4 in.) to a concrete surface. He sustai ned severe head fractures and was killed. Past job experience was the only safet y training qualification required by the employer. When Employee #1 was hired tw
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 27 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- WORKING SURFACE (42)
- Occupation
- Carpenters (567)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- WORK-SURFACE/FACIL-LAYOUT COND (13)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.