OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #828830
MODERN BUILDERS, INC.
HUDSON, IA·
Event description
Employee killed in fall from roof
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a laborer on a two-man roofing crew, set up a 24 ft wood extension ladder to access the roof of a building. He climbed the ladder to the roof and t hrew down the end of an extension cord that was to be plugged into an outlet. Wh en he tried to get onto the ladder to come back down, the top section of the lad der slipped, then retracted all the way to the ground. Employee #1 fell 14 ft 2 1/2 in. to the concrete and was killed. Apparently, the hooks on the top section of the ladder were improperly hooked over the rungs of the ladder's bottom sect ion. Employee #1 had not been instructed in the proper use of the ladder.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 20 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 25
- Occupation code
- 595
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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