OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #890665
PENINSULA ROOFING COMPANY INC
OCEAN CITY, MD·
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
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#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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