OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #893644
ACE CARPENTRY, INC.
FAIRFAX, VA·
Event description
Employee injured in fall from roof
Investigation abstract
At approximately 7:30 a.m. on September 5, 1988, Employee #1 and coworkers were as no catch platform in place, nor was there any fall protection, such as a safe ty belt and lifeline. on a 28 ft high, 8:12 pitched townhouse roof, preparing to cut off the plywood o verlap on the east side. He began to nail short 2 by 4 kickplates to the roof to provide footing while they cut the plywood. The plywood was wet from rain the p revious night and Employee #1 slipped and slid feet first down the roof and then fell 28 ft to the ground. He was hospitalized with compression fractures of fou r vertebrae, a fractured right wrist, a concussion, and a bruised kidney. The em ployee should have started installing his kickplates at the eave so that he woul d have something to stand on as he worked up toward the top of the roof. There w
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 20 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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