Carpenter Dies After 13-Foot Fall Through Roof Opening onto Concrete Floor: FACE 89-41

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  An evaluation was conducted of a 27 year old male carpenter who fell through a cut opening on a roof to a concrete floor 13 feet 4 inches below, sustained massive head injuries and died 6 days later. The victim had been employed for 2 months by a construction company which was building a shopping mall. The company had no designated safety officer. The job superintendent had conducted safety meetings in the past, but the last one was over a year prior to the incident. No safety training was offered by the company. The victim had climbed to the roof of the mall structure and removed the nails from one side of a plywood cover so he could drop an electric cord down to the floor where power outlets were available. He apparently knelt down and leaned into the opening with the plywood cover resting on his back in order to look for someone to plug in the cord to an outlet. While kneeling the victim either lost his balance or the weight of the plywood pushed him head first into the concrete floor below. It was noted that during planning for any job, consideration should be given to providing temporary power to locations where powered tools will be needed, that warning signs should be present on all roof covers, and that the company should develop and implement an active safety program.
• Content Notes:
  Publication date provided by the authoring office. There is no publication date indicated on the resource.
• Subjects:
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Accidental Falls
  • Construction Industry
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
• Keywords:
  • FACE-89-41
  • OSHA Region 3
  • Roofing-industry
  • Construction-industry
  • Construction-workers
  • Accident-analysis
  • Safety-practices
  • Construction-Search
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  All ; Construction ; Falls ; Falls - Construction - Commercial ; Falls - Construction - Roofs
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE8941
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3
• 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:
  3 pdf pages
• Volume:
  1989
• Issue:
  41
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00199097
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB91-212803
• 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 89-41, 1989 Oct ; :1-6
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1990
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS 2022)
• Start Date:
  1989/06/08
• Resource Number:
  FACE 89-41
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/164389/cdc_164389_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 235.41 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:91d3b551e5ab6982e7b4d79846c71998144fcd3eeeaf2b4e22d560905d61e4bb9399d8d011f86c808893d00529c0f35530f14963ff3cbb37b3f16b32cf339036