A Roofer Falls To His Death

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• Personal Author:
  Belloli, Joseph ; Davis, Letitia ; Linhares, Donald ; Troiano, Steven
• Corporate Authors:
  Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE) ; Massachusetts. Department of Labor and Industries. Division of Industrial Safety
• Description:
  A 33 year old roofer fell approximately 25 feet to his death while working to repair the roof of a three story residence. The contractor for whom he was employed had no written safety program or procedures and provided no safety training. The victim was not using personal fall protection equipment and the ladders used were not secured. The Massachusetts FACE project concluded that, in order to prevent similar occurrence in the future, employers should: 1. Ensure that employees use fall protection equipment when the possibility of a serious fall exists
  
  2. Ensure that employees use secure ladders in accordance with existing Massachusetts and OSHA regulations
  
  3. Provide safety training to employees regarding all potential hazards to which they may be exposed and relevant safe work practices
  
  and 4. Be provided with information regarding what constitutes an employer/employee relationship and the responsibility of the employer in the case of a workplace injury.
  
  
• 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-workers Injuries Injury-prevention Ladders OSHA Region 1 Personal-protective-equipment Protective-equipment Protective-measures Roofers Roofing-industry Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring 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 ; Falls - Construction - Roofs
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE90MA001
• 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:
  4 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20028360
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2012-106692
• 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 90MA001, 1990 Oct ; :1-3
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1991
• 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-512:714e8809adcc92432d1d57811dbd953257d95ceca63dfedbf6092d5994f37a94e2c4cd0188ab1a18c2a76bebbffc59988c27b2ca428c98cbb95f84c9fdcf7eba
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/166758/cdc_166758_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 19.38 KB ]