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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #890665

ROOF,WORK RULES,SLIP,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION

Event
ROOF,WORK RULES,SLIP,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
890665
Report ID
352410

Event description

Employee injured in fall from roof

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was working on a pitched roof with a 25 degree angle. He was using a 2 in. wide paintbrush to apply an adhesive coating to the plywood roof. He was in a crouched position and facing toward the front part of the roof while he was applying the adhesive. The temperature was in the low to mid-30 degrees F. He s lipped on part of the roof that he had already coated and fell forward 11 ft 1/2 in. to a blacktop surface. He was hospitalized.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 38 M

    Nature of injury
    3
    Part of body
    19
    Event type
    5
    Source
    8
    Occupation code
    595
    Human factor
    10
    Environmental factor
    13
    Task assigned
    1

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