Carpenter Dies After Falling 16 Feet From Roof–North Carolina

doi:10.26616/NIOSHFACE9509

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Carpenter Dies After Falling 16 Feet From Roof–North Carolina

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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
Description:

This report concerned the death of a 46-year-old male carpenter who fell 16 feet from a roof onto a concrete porch floor. The employer was a company that manufactured prefabricated structures. The victim was part of a five-man crew working on a prefabricated church. At the time of the accident the crew was applying roofing felt to the plywood sheeting on the pitched gable roof of the church. The victim walked backward on the roof, unrolling the felt about 8 feet at a time as the wind was gusting. Facing the victim, about 8 feet away was a worker who was temporarily nailing down the felt. A short distance behind that second worker, two crew members were permanently nailing the felt to the roof. The foreman was also on the roof observing. None of the workers wore any fall protection. The minister called the foreman from the roof to discuss the color of the shingles. The victim approached the edge of the roof, lost his balance, and fell backward, striking first a temporary brace on the skeletal framework of the church's front porch 6 feet below the edge of the roof, and then falling an additional 10 feet to the concrete porch floor, striking his head. He was pronounced dead on the scene; the cause of death was skull fracture. Recommendations were made that appropriate fall protection equipment be used when there is a danger of falling, that a written safety program be developed, that scheduled and unscheduled workplace safety inspections be carried out, and that workers be encouraged to actively participate in workplace safety.
Subjects:

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Accidents, Occupational Occupational Health Safety
Keywords:

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Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Construction-Search Construction-workers FACE-95-09 Head-injuries OSHA Region 4 Roofing-industry Safety-research Traumatic-injuries
FACE - NIOSH and State:

All (0000) ; Construction (0005) ; Falls (0007) ; Falls - Construction - Residential (0021) ; Falls - Construction - Roofs (0031)

All (0000) ; Construction (0005) ; Falls (0007) ; Falls - Construction - Residential (0021) ; Falls - Construction - Roofs (0031) Less -
Series:

Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
Subseries:

NIOSH (In-House)
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE9509
Publisher:

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Document Type:

Text
Genre:

Field Study
Place as Subject:

North Carolina ; OSHA Region 4

North Carolina ; OSHA Region 4 Less -
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:

4 pdf pages
NIOSHTIC Number:

227189
NTIS Accession Number:

PB95-241113
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:

1995
Peer Reviewed:

False
NAICS and SIC Codes:

23 - Construction - (NAICS 2022)
Start Date:

1995/03/07
Resource Number:

FACE-95-09
Collection(s):

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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urn:sha-512:53518333a7bfd9406fd424b490b94c9d7604f9a2f7eea857b1bdc6c2b3bd915a59cdfcbd1db8abea46bfd622d8b6184e3a29e8918f73170a4f87e1d021ef02a9
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