OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #998914
ROOF,SLIP,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,ROOF OPENING
Event description
CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYEE KILLED IN FALL THROUGH ROOF DECKING
Investigation abstract
AT APPROXIMATELY 9 AM ON JULY 10, 1987, EMPLOYEE #1 AND ANOTHER IRONWORKER WERE RIES INCURRED IN THE FALL. LAYING STEEL DECKING ON THE 27TH FLOOR OF A 57 STORY OFFICE CENTER UNDER CONSTRU CTION. THE EMPLOYEES REALIZED THAT ONE PIECE OF DECKING WAS TOO SHORT, SO THEY D ECIDED TO HAND CARRY IT ONTO THE COMPLETED PORTION OF THE DECKING TO GET IT OUT OF THE WAY. EMPLOYEE #1 GRABBED THE NORTH END OF THE PIECE, WHICH WAS IN AN OPEN AREA, WHILE HIS PARTNER GRABBED THE OTHER END NEAR THE COMPLETED PORTION OF THE DECK. EMPLOYEE #1 HAD JUST REACHED THE EDGE OF THE COMPLETED AREA WHEN HE SLIPP ED, MISSED THE DECK AND FELL 26 FEET TO THE COMPLETED STEEL DECK ON THE 25TH FLO OR. AT ABOUT 11 AM THE EMPLOYEE DIED, IN SURGERY, OF THE MULTIPLE TRAUMATIC INJU
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 41 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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