Fall through surface or existing opening 16 to 20 feet · Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at SOUTHWESTERN ROOFING AND METAL, INC., 5600 W Reno, OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA 73127
on , Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk, affecting the multiple trunk locations.
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Final narrative
An employee was helping a sheet metal foreman measure a small sheet metal roof over the dock. The employee walked onto the sheet metal roof and fell through a flush skylight on the canopy. He fell 16 feet, landed on some 55-gallon drums, bounced, and ended up on the dock concrete flooring. He was hospitalized with broken ribs, broken vertebrae, a punctured lung, an injury to the other lung, and a damaged spleen.