Sheet Metal Worker Dies After Falling 35 Feet to a Concrete Floor

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  The case of a 54 year old male sheet metal worker who died after falling 35 feet onto a concrete floor from a steel I-beam was examined. The employer was a general contractor who specialized in constructing industrial complexes and commercial and multifamily dwellings. The employer employed 254 workers, and had no written safety policy or safety program. The victim was walking along a 5 inch I-beam flange carrying a piece of angle iron. A coworker was walking behind him. Both were wearing safety belts with lanyards, but neither was tied off to a lifeline. No lifelines or catenary lines were present on the roof. The men tied off to the 4 inch steel purlins only when sitting and making connections. The coworker saw the victim suddenly loose his balance and fall to the concrete floor 35 feet below. Head trauma was the cause of death. It was recommended that fall protection regulations be followed on the job
  
  that alternative methods of installing rake angle be evaluated
  
  and that a safety program designed to help workers recognize, understand, and control hazards be developed.
  
  
• Content Notes:
  Publication date provided by the authoring office. There is no publication date indicated on the resource.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Nervous System Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Construction-industry Construction-Search Construction-workers FACE-91-07 Head-injuries OSHA Region 3 Roofing-and-sheet-metal-work Traumatic-injuries Work-practices
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Construction ; Falls ; Falls - Construction - Commercial
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE9107
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  South Carolina ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  4 pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00206908
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB92-193564
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE 91-07, 1991 Mar ; :1-5
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1991
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1990/11/12
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:ca1f6c6f3e59db48eff94871bc132f41dc7027c05b8b2cb54dc8e1c15485b4f69fc0d7857e067d306d4744868f7beb78b9d5c84879ea922240eb1f9883426356
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/164322/cdc_164322_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 297.80 KB ]