OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #964213
ROOF,SLIP,STRUCK AGAINST,FALL,FALL PROTECTION
Event description
EMPLOYEE HOSPITALIZED DUE TO FALL FROM ROOF
Investigation abstract
An employee was installing shingles on a roof 20 ft above the ground. The tar pa per the employee was standing on ripped and the employee fell from the roof to t he ground below. He suffered multiple fractures and was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 52 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 869
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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