A Sixteen-Year-Old Male Died After Falling 27 Feet at a Residential Construction Site–Alabama

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  A 16-year-old male framing construction crew member (the victim) died after falling 27 feet from the third story of a residential dormitory construction site. The victim was moving roof trusses that were to be anchored in place using a nail gun. He was supporting himself on an 8-inch-wide structural wooden beam. The victim was not wearing or using personal fall protection equipment. When the victim fell to the ground floor inside the building, at least one of the 8-foot by 4-foot trusses fell with him or just behind him, striking his head when he impacted the ground. Co-workers notified the supervisor who immediately called 911. Co-workers and other witnesses went to the victim to assist him. Emergency responders arrived within a few minutes, and on observing the severity of the head injury, transported the victim to a local city hospital where he was pronounced dead.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Construction-Search Occupational-accidents Occupational-hazards Occupational-safety-programs OSHA Region 4 Personal-protective-equipment Protective-equipment Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-practices Safety-programs Traumatic-injuries

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Construction ; Falls ; Hispanic - Construction ; Youth ; Falls - Construction - Residential
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE200016
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Construction
• 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:
  10 pages
• Contributor:
  Smith, Gregory J.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20024215
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2005-101095
• 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:
  2001
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  2000/04/19
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a05bac3973f3494f35c3723e741b75dfc4c87623cb9399025b85c7fdb89d001b3a684fa94fb3af8f530e40f8124c77564e2dabe2ff8b73fd9905c592439fee5b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167344/cdc_167344_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 999.69 KB ]