Fourteen-Year-Old Laborer Dies After Falling Through a Skylight--Alabama

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  On February 4, 2001 a 14-year-old male laborer (the victim) died from injuries he sustained the previous day when he fell approximately 12 feet through a skylight to the lower concrete level below. The victim was reportedly working with his employer and a crew of six other workers removing existing roofing materials from the flat roof of a wholesale florist shop. None of the workers had received training in fall protection methods and no means of fall protection had been provided by the employer. A coworker told police that the victim was removing roofing materials and apparently lost his balance and fell backwards through an unguarded skylight. Immediately following the incident, workers inside the florist shop called 911, and police and emergency medical services (EMS) personnel responded within 4 minutes. The victim was transported by ambulance to a local hospital where he died the day after the incident.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Age Factors Construction Industry Occupational Health Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Age-factors Construction-Search OSHA Region 4 Roofing-industry Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Safety-practices Safety-programs Traumatic-injuries

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Construction ; Youth
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE200107
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Alabama ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  12 pages
• Contributor:
  Higgins, Doloris N.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20024392
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2005-101027
• Citation:
  Morgantown, : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2002
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  2001/02/04
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8f76f9123ca578153e3afabc1685b5200acc3abe472aa52b2423c5db0bcc27e32205eaf164612a690e7fa6060b5f01a6ba7d60efa26b03e152f13b1614c3ef52
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167337/cdc_167337_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 230.63 KB ]