OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #977827
ROOF,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,LOST BALANCE
Event description
Employee killed in fall from roof
Investigation abstract
On December 29, 1988, Graham Steel Erectors employees were completing a roofing er carried the metal to the roof edge and set it down on the roof. Employee #1 r aised the metal to a vertical position to push it over the edge. He was standing approximately 18 in. from the edge when he lost his footing and stumbled forwar d, toward the roof edge. Unable to stop his forward momentum, Employee #1 fell 3 1 ft to pavement, landing approximately 15 ft beyond the roof edge. He sustained massive crushing injuries and was killed. The owner was standing approximately 4 ft behind Employee #1 when he fell. project at the Magic Chef Stove Co. facility. The employees had installed a new roof over an existing roof and removed old ventilation and ducts. Various scrap metal was disassembled into smaller parts to be taken off the roof. It was deter mined by the owner of the company that the scrap parts would be pushed over the side of the building to the ground. The owner and Employee #1 had been pushing s craps to the roof edge and tilting them to the point where they slid off the roo f 31 ft to the pavement. All scrap parts had been dropped to the ground except f or one piece of C channel scrap metal that weighed approximately 100 lb. The own
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 31 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 595
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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