OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #849422
ANDREW & EVA JANUS DBA MODERN GENERAL CONTRACTORS
CHICAGO, IL·
Event description
Employee killed in fall from roof
Investigation abstract
At approximately 5:50 p.m. on May 25, 1989, Employee #1 was finishing removing o ld tar paper from the flat roof of a two story building. The roof dimensions wer e 68 ft long by 22 ft wide with a 13 inch high parapet along the sides. There wa s a 3 ft high facade at the front of the roof and nothing in the back. Employee #1 was walking on a plastic cover that was nailed to the roof where the old tar paper had been removed to protect the roof from the rain that was falling. Emplo yee #1 either slipped on the wet plastic and lost his balance or fell for some o ther reason over the roof edge to the gangway. He was killed. No fall protection for built-up roofing work was implemented.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 30 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- BODILY MOTION (5)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- INSUFF/LACK/WRITN WRK PRAC PROG. (18)
- 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.