OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #849422
ROOF,WORK RULES,SLIP,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,SLIPPERY SURFACE,LOST BALANCE
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 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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