OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #888230
TRUSS,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,BACK,FALL,FALL PROTECTION
Event description
Employee injured in fall from roof trusses
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was standing on a roof truss while other roof trusses were being set in place. One roof truss fell, causing several other trusses to topple over. Th e employee was knocked 10 ft to the wooden decking. He was hospitalized with an injured back.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 20
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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