OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #893404
FRACTURE,ROOF,UNSECURED,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,WALKING SURFACE,METAL DECKING,FALL,LEG
Event description
Employee injured in fall from roof
Investigation abstract
At approximately 2:50 p.m. on November 7, 1988, Employee #1 was walking across t he metal decking on the roof of a building. The decking had not been secured to the joist and as the employee stepped on the decking, it slipped off the joist. Both the decking and Employee #1 fell through the roof. He sustained a fractured right arm and leg, for which he was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 29 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 2
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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