OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #893800
FRACTURE,ROOF,UNSECURED,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,LANYARD,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,LOST BALANCE,HIP
Event description
Employee fractures hip in fall from roof
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was positioned on the north gable of the roof of tower 1, trimming t ifeline secured to the exposed beams at the peak of the roof would have accompli shed this. he edge of the metal roof decking material using a burning torch. He was wearing a safety belt and lanyard, but he had hooked the lanyard to the edge of the dec king and the tongue of the hook could not close. As the employee was changing hi s position, he lost his footing and slid down the gable to the valley and then o ff the roof 14 ft 7 in. to the concrete deck of the seventh floor. He landed wit hin 18 inches of 25 inch high vertical steel reinforcing rods and sustained a fr actured hip. He was hospitalized for one day. Employee #1 was not provided with a secure means of connecting his lanyard to assure adequate fall protection. A l
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 34 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 14
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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