OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #893800
JOHN HENRY STEEL ERECTION CO., INC.
VIENNA, VA·
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 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- HIP(S) (14)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- OTHER (43)
- Occupation
- Structural metal workers (597)
- Human factor
- OTHER (14)
- Environmental factor
- WORK-SURFACE/FACIL-LAYOUT COND (13)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.