OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #893768
SKYLIGHT,ROOF,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,TIE-OFF
Event description
Employee killed in fall through skylight
Investigation abstract
At approximately 7:10 a.m. on February 28, 1989, Employee #1 and coworkers were ight (approximately 250 lb), and he fell approximately 32 ft into a pit that had been prepared to install the new pipe machine. He was taken to the hospital, wh ere he died at 11:47 a.m. on the roof of a concrete manufacturing plant. They were loosening and removing roof panels so that a crane line could be lowered through the roof opening to in stall a structural steel tower for a new pipe machine. The roof was too low to a llow an inside crane to extend its boom high enough to position the tower. The e mployees were near the peak of the roof where there were six fiberglass skylight panels, three along the northwest side of the roof and three along the southeas t side. Each employee was wearing a safety belt, but before Employee #1 could be tied off, he inadvertently stepped onto a skylight panel. It broke under his we
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 20 M
- Nature of injury
- 18
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 869
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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