Construction Laborer Falls to His Death from a Roof in Ohio

doi:10.26616/NIOSHFACE8808

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Construction Laborer Falls to His Death from a Roof in Ohio

1988/07/19
By National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Series: Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)

English

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Corporate Authors:

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Description:

The case of a 26 year old construction worker who died when he fell 27 feet from the roof of a building under construction was examined. The victim had been employed for 2 years as a construction laborer by a small company specializing in the erection of prefabricated metal buildings. The victim was working with an eight man crew assigned to install roofing on a large prefabricated building. The crew began stretching a roll of heavy, reinforced insulation over the Z-purlins which formed the main supports for the roof. At the time of the accident the victim was standing on the walkway at the peak of the roof beyond the area where roofing tasks were being performed. The victim stepped from the walkway onto an unsecured panel which twisted and gave way, causing him to fall 27 feet through a gap in the metal bracing to the concrete floor. It was recommended that fall protection equipment should have been in place and used by the workers. Unused or unsecured construction materials should be stored only in designated areas.
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Subjects:

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Occupational Health Safety
Keywords:

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Accident-analysis Construction-Search Construction-workers FACE-88-08 OSHA Region 5 Roofers Safety-research Traumatic-injuries Work-practices
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/NIOSHFACE8808
Publisher:

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Document Type:

Text
Genre:

Field Study
Place as Subject:

Ohio ; OSHA Region 5

Ohio ; OSHA Region 5 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:

2 pages
NIOSHTIC Number:

00186168
NTIS Accession Number:

PB89-188221
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 88-08, 1988 Jul; :1-5
Federal Fiscal Year:

1988
Peer Reviewed:

False
NAICS and SIC Codes:

23 - Construction - (NAICS 2022)
Start Date:

1987/12/07
Resource Number:

FACE-88-08
Collection(s):

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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