A Plumber Dies When He Falls from the Second Floor of a Building after Stepping on Unsupported Plywood Formwork

Details

• Personal Author:
  Cierpich, Hank ; Harrison, Robert ; Styles, Laura
• Corporate Authors:
  California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA/FACE) ; California. Department of Public Health. Occupational Health Branch
• Description:
  A plumber fell approximately 25 feet from the second floor of a new building under construction. The victim stepped from a concrete section of the second floor onto a piece of plywood from which the vertical shoring had just been removed. The plywood collapsed under his weight and he fell to the floor below. The CA/FACE investigator determined that, in order to prevent future incidents, construction contractors of buildings under multi-floor construction should ensure that workers do not walk on plywood sheets while vertical shoring is removed. In addition, contractors installing and removing horizontal shoring should develop and implement a system that clearly identifies the vertical shoring parts that are to be removed and those that are to remain in place.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Construction-industry Construction-workers Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 9 Plumbers Traumatic-injuries Work-practices
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Construction ; Falls ; Hispanic - Construction ; Falls - Construction - Commercial ; Prevention through Design (PtD)
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE11CA001
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-8
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20040884
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2012-110762
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE 11CA001, 2012 Jan ; :1-8
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• Performing Organization:
  California Department of Public Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  2005/07/01
• End Date:
  2026/06/30
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:6e021aeeb4a479dafb2bd5382c1283a5b23bc9ff21f623620b13616a25784e86c1143a6f1d2292d2ea12c764420972f26e146e57407a7755e849d20d12011299
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/165204/cdc_165204_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 401.47 KB ]