Massachusetts Carpenter Dies in Fall Through Floor Opening at a Home Construction Site

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• Corporate Authors:
  Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE) ; Massachusetts. Department of Public Health
• Description:
  On August 11, 1993, a 33 year old male carpenter died from injuries sustained in a twenty foot fall through a floor opening at a homesite under construction in Massachusetts. In the moments prior to his fall, the victim was reportedly fastening two framed wall sections together near the floor opening. The victim's supervisor and co-worker saw the victim fall headfirst through the second story floor opening to the concrete basement floor below, and rushed to his aid. They summoned emergency medical services who arrived within minutes. The victim was transported to the regional hospital where he died approximately three hours and forty-five minutes later. The Massachusetts FACE Project concluded that to prevent similar occurrences in the future, employers should: 1. Require floor openings to be adequately protected and/or personal protective equipment to be used in the presence of fall hazards. 2. Develop, implement, and enforce a comprehensive safety program that includes, but is not limited to, worker training in fall hazard recognition and the use of fall protection devices. 3. Consider and address worker safety in the planning phase of construction projects, and do so, if necessary, on a daily basis.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management Staff Development Workplace
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 1 Personal-protection Personal-protective-equipment Protective-equipment Protective-measures Roofers Roofing-industry Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Safety-programs Training Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis Work-areas Work-operations Work-performance Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Construction ; Falls ; Falls - Construction - Residential
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE93MA013
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20028410
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2012-112960
• 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 93MA013, 1994 Apr ; :1-3
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1994
• Performing Organization:
  Massachusetts Department of Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1992/09/30
• End Date:
  2006/08/31
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:ca11b01df1b95f0bc519aad49039f5b8b39a7735ba040612eabf9bf425bc69916375fdd774a2e4e10c09538d72ce85741f6add6173278136a4dd366519c3d647
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/166657/cdc_166657_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 15.13 KB ]