Roofer Falls to His Death from a Roof in Maryland: FACE 88-07

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  The case of a 41 year old male roofer who died when he fell from roof framing to a concrete floor 22 feet below was examined. The victim had worked for a roofing company with 45 employees for 2 years. There was a written safety program, and safety programs on videotape were presented to employees on days when weather or other conditions precluded work. The victim was working with a coworker to install roof decking panels on a new building. The victim was standing with one foot on a panel that had been installed and his other foot on one of the 1 7/8 inch purlins. He was pushing on one end of a 8 foot panel to force the tongue to engage the groove on the adjacent panel. The panel suddenly dropped into place, and this caused the victim to lose his balance. The victim fell through a gap in the framing, 27 feet to the concrete floor. It was recommended that employers should ensure that fall protection equipment is provided and used by workers. The use of a safety belt/lanyard combination or a safety net would probably have saved the life of the worker.
• 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:
  • OSHA Region 3
  • FACE-88-07
  • Accident-analysis
  • Roofers
  • Work-practices
  • Safety-research
  • Traumatic-injuries
  • Construction-workers
  • 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/NIOSHFACE8807
• 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:
  2 pdf pages
• Volume:
  1988
• Issue:
  7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00186169
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB89-188213
• 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 88-07, 1988 Jul ; :1-4
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1988
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS 2022)
• Start Date:
  1987/11/16
• Resource Number:
  FACE 88-07
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/164420/cdc_164420_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 184.95 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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