Ironworker Dies Following a 25-Foot Fall through a Roof Opening

doi:10.26616/NIOSHFACE8913

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Ironworker Dies Following a 25-Foot Fall through a Roof Opening

1989/04/19
By National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Series: Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)

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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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On December 14, 1988, a 41 year old male ironworker died when he fell 25 feet after stepping through a roof opening. The victim had been employed for about 18 years as an ironworker by a small construction firm. The victim was part of an eight person crew finishing the steel erection for a six story building. At the time of the incident, the crew had returned from a break and was going to finish laying the formwork decking in the mechanical area on the roof. When the members of the crew noticed that the victim did not return from break, they began searching for him, finding him, having apparently fallen about 18 feet onto the concrete stairs and then another 7 feet to the floor where he was found lying across a guy wire. He apparently had stepped into a 2 foot square stairway ventilation opening on the roof. The opening had been covered by a piece of decking, which the victim apparently removed for use elsewhere. He died 12 hours later, presumably as a result of traumatic injuries sustained in the fall. Recommendations include protecting all floor and roof openings with standard railing or a floor hole cover secured against displacement, hazard analysis as an ongoing part of each job phase, and cutting the roof openings as the last ironworking activity on the roof.
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Occupational Health Safety
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Accident-analysis Construction-industry Construction-Search Construction-workers FACE-89-13 OSHA Region 3 Safety-practices Traumatic-injuries
FACE - NIOSH and State:

All (0000) ; Construction (0005) ; Falls (0007) ; Falls - Construction - Commercial (0020) ; Falls - Construction - Roofs (0031)

All (0000) ; Construction (0005) ; Falls (0007) ; Falls - Construction - Commercial (0020) ; Falls - Construction - Roofs (0031) Less -
Series:

Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
Subseries:

NIOSH (In-House)
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE8913
Publisher:

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Document Type:

Text
Genre:

Field Study
Place as Subject:

Maryland ; OSHA Region 3

Maryland ; OSHA Region 3 Less -
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 pages
NIOSHTIC Number:

00198510
NTIS Accession Number:

PB91-197665
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 89-13, 1989 Apr; :1-3
Federal Fiscal Year:

1989
Peer Reviewed:

False
NAICS and SIC Codes:

23 - Construction - (NAICS 2022)
Start Date:

1988/12/14
Resource Number:

FACE-89-13
Collection(s):

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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