Massachusetts Construction Worker Dies in Fall Through a Roof Opening While Performing Iron Work

doi:10.26616/NIOSHSFACE94MA011

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Massachusetts Construction Worker Dies in Fall Through a Roof Opening While Performing Iron Work

1994/09/02
By Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE) ...
Series: Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)

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Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE) ; Massachusetts. Department of Public Health

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On January 31, 1994 a 23 year old, male, construction worker was fatally injured on a Massachusetts construction site when he fell approximately 20 feet through a roof opening to ice covered ground. The victim was not wearing any fall protection. On the day of the incident the victim and his coworkers were positioning and welding metal decking to the structural steel beams. The victim had been pulled off this job, and was capping the roof when he fell through the 3 by 40 square foot opening. Sheet metal workers found the unconscious victim lying on the ground, and yelled for assistance. An iron working coworker immediately sought emergency medical assistance and the victim was airlifted to a hospital where he died the next day of multiple injuries. To prevent future similar occurrences, the FACE Program recommends that employers: 1. Require floor openings to be adequately protected and/or personal protective equipment to be used in the presence of fall hazards; 2. Ensure that fall protection equipment is provided and used by all employees whenever any work is preformed at an elevation where the potential for a serious or fatal fall exists; 3. Design, develop and implement a comprehensive safety program that includes, but is not limited to fall protection.
Content Notes:

Publication Date provided by FACE program; not printed on the report.
Subjects:

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Accidents, Occupational Occupational Health Safety
Keywords:

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Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Accidents Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Injuries Injury-prevention NIOSH Region-1 Personal-protection Personal-protective-equipment Protective-equipment Protective-measures Roofing-and-sheet-metal-work Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Safety-programs Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis Work-areas Work-operations Work-performance 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 -
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Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
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State
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE94MA011
Publisher:

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Document Type:

Text
Funding:

Cooperative Agreement
Genre:

Field Study
Place as Subject:

Massachusetts
CIO:

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
Topic:

Workplace Safety & Health
Location:

North America
Pages in Document:

1-4
NIOSHTIC Number:

20028425
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 94MA011, 1994 Sep; :1-3
Federal Fiscal Year:

1994
Performing Organization:

Massachusetts Department of Health
Peer Reviewed:

False
NAICS and SIC Codes:

23 - Construction - (NAICS 2022)
Start Date:

1992/09/30
Source Full Name:

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
End Date:

2006/08/31
Resource Number:

FACE-94MA011
Collection(s):

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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