Laborer/helper falls through opening in warehouse roof to the floor below and dies in California

Details

• Personal Author:
  Guerriero, Judie ; Harrison, Robert ; Tibben, Richard W.
• Corporate Authors:
  California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA/FACE) ; California. Department of Health Services. Occupational Health Branch
• Description:
  A 40-year-old laborer/helper died when he fell through the opening in a warehouse roof approximately 27 feet to the floor below. The employer was demolishing the roof of the warehouse portion of a commercial building. The decedent had picked up a 4X8 foot sheet of damaged plywood and began to walk away when he fell through the opening in the roof. Another worker, who had removed the damaged plywood, had walked away to obtain nails for the replacement piece of plywood. The opening was left unguarded when the decedent came over to remove the damaged piece of plywood. The crew was not informed that the opening was temporarily left unguarded. The CA/FACE investigator determined that, in order to prevent future occurrences, employers should: 1. ensure that their Site-Specific Safety Plans address hazards which, if reasonably anticipated to occur, would lead to injury or death. 2. ensure roof openings are not left unprotected, unguarded, or uncovered. 3. equip all workers in the area of roof demolition with fall protection. 4. require that all job site hazards are communicated on an ongoing basis to all workers required to be in the area.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management Workplace
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Injuries Injury-prevention Occupational-hazards OSHA Region 9 Personal-protection Personal-protective-equipment Protective-equipment Protective-measures Roofers Roofing-industry Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Traumatic-injuries Warning-signs Work-analysis Work-areas Work-operations Work-performance Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Construction ; Falls ; Hispanic ; Falls - Construction - Residential ; Foreign Born Workers ; Falls - Construction - Roofs
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE98CA005
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  5 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20027186
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2007-111652
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE 98CA005, 1998 Oct ; :1-5
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1999
• Performing Organization:
  California Department of Health Services
• 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:efb14f4fb051efd3926622a03257033dedd54dfecb9871625808c1adb543f0520d784548bef65a01411ebc828d472b576e461e0c7411e08325f3d1e837454b5b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/168982/cdc_168982_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 17.67 KB ]