Carpentry/Roofing Foreman Dies in Fall Through Roof Opening in Massachusetts

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• Corporate Authors:
  Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE) ; Massachusetts. Department of Public Health. Occupational Health Surveillance Program
• Description:
  A 21 year old male carpentry/roofing foreman died from injuries sustained in a 26 foot fall through a roof opening at a 120,000 square foot building under construction. Following installation of a 14 inch high curbing unit around a 6 foot by 12 foot square roof opening, the victim was flashing (installing a weather barrier) around the unit when the incident occurred. As he stood up, he tripped over the curbing and fell through the opening to the concrete floor below. The victim was transported to the regional hospital where he died the following morning. The Massachusetts FACE Investigator concluded that to prevent similar occurrences in the future, employers should: 1. Consider and address worker safety in the planning phase of construction projects and do so on a daily basis if necessary. 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. 3. Require floor openings to be adequately protected and/or personal protective equipment to be used in the presence of fall hazards.
• Subjects:
  • Accident Prevention
  • Accidents
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Construction Industry
  • Occupational Health
  • Personal Protective Equipment
  • Safety
  • Safety Management
  • Staff Development
  • Workplace
• Keywords:
  • OSHA Region 1
  • Accident-analysis
  • Accident-prevention
  • Accidents
  • Injuries
  • Injury-prevention
  • Traumatic-injuries
  • Work-operations
  • Work-analysis
  • Work-areas
  More +
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Construction ; Falls ; Falls - Construction - Commercial ; Falls - Construction - Roofs
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE92MA016
• 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:
  1-4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20028385
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2012-109009
• 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 92MA016, 1993 Jan ; :1-4
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1993
• 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
• Resource Number:
  FACE-92MA016
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/166734/cdc_166734_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 18.36 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d01f1fd9d6631572af4da01a1f68617465b8d8703ecddf178ac2926d23c38816b540d458bb9b480a90fb9e1fb904243226aed1c6aa03a896ed8dde9ee9342301