Carpenter Dies from Falling Off a Porch Roof of a Private Home

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• Corporate Authors:
  Minnesota Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MN FACE) ; Minnesota. Department of Health
• Description:
  A 20-year-old male carpenter (victim) died as a result of head injuries ten days after falling off a porch roof of a private home. The roof was 12 feet from the ground to the eaves with a 4 to 12 pitch (a 4" rise to every 12" run). He was applying shingles to the roof and was two rows from completion. The incident occurred in the morning on a dry spring day. A nearby coworker, with his back toward the victim, was installing flashing. The coworker heard a thump as the victim fell off the roof, hit a ladder jack scaffold below, and landed on the sidewalk. No fall protection devices were being used by the victim at the time of the incident. MN FACE investigators concluded that, in order to prevent similar occurrences, the following guidelines should be followed: 1. provide training for all employees involved in roofing work so that they are able to recognize and control the hazards of falling
  
  and 2. use fall protection systems such as catch platforms or safety belts while performing roofing work to prevent fall injuries.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Age Factors Construction Industry Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management Staff Development Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Age-factors Construction-industry Construction-workers Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 5 Personal-protective-equipment Protective-measures Roofers Roofing-and-sheet-metal-work Roofing-industry Safety-belts 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/NIOSHSFACE92MN010
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Minnesota ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  3 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20027361
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2012-112906
• 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 92MN010, 1992 Sep ; :1-3
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1992
• Performing Organization:
  Minnesota Department of Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1991/09/30
• End Date:
  2006/08/31
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:76598e8877e4a7f8dea216038d81cadd86228f48621fadfa49f5c68a3c42a07a7d9104646e13bc2cdf6d6dedbfb9188edeb18925f740f60591eeaa255db1bc34
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167234/cdc_167234_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 53.48 KB ]