Roofer Helper Dies After Falling 16½ Feet From Roof to Concrete Basement Way--Kansas

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  A 15-year-old male roofer helper (the victim) died after falling 16 1/2 feet from a roof to a concrete basement way while trying to prevent a bundle of shingles from sliding off a roof edge. At the time of the incident, the victim and a 16-year-old co-worker were removing the shingles from the roof of the private residence of his employer. Prior to removing the shingles, the victim and his co-worker had been instructed to carry several bundles of shingles up a ladder and stack them at the roof's peak. When this had been accomplished, the workers began to remove the shingles from the roof with shovels. While removing the old shingles, the victim either struck a bundle of new shingles with his body or with the shovel handle, causing the bundle to slide toward the back edge of the roof. While attempting to stop the bundle of shingles, the victim lost his balance and fell off the back edge of the roof. The victim landed on his back and struck his head on the concrete basement way.
• Subjects:
  Accidental Falls Accident Prevention Accidents Construction Industry Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Children Construction-Search Fall-protection-equipment Falls OSHA Region 7 Roofers
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Construction ; Falls ; Youth ; Falls - Construction - Residential ; Falls - Construction - Roofs
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE9816
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Kansas ; OSHA Region 7
• 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:
  6 pages
• Contributor:
  Casini, Virgil J. ; Castillo, Dawn N.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000458
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB99-157372
• 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:
  1999
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1998/07/18
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:9a5fa8590456ac74b2a49e403ddaebbffea48221fcf89a9ab166effe8bccaff929c00c8d27682624a428ac33ab755be34fccee8d01c02f31ef29ad152d35e269
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167393/cdc_167393_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 313.46 KB ]