Tile Setter Dies after Falling Approximately 30 Feet while at Work at a Commercial Office Building in California

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• Corporate Authors:
  California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA/FACE) ; California. Department of Health Services
• Description:
  On September 16, 1994, a 29-year-old white, non-Hispanic male tile setter (the decedent) died after falling approximately 30 feet while replacing tiles and brick veneer on a four-story open air parking structure damaged during the 1994 Northridge earthquake. The decedent and a co-worker had been making repairs above two outside elevator doors. The decedent apparently was standing on an unstable, portable, wooden stepladder adjacent to a 43 inch, 16-foot-long pedestrian guardrail. The decedent fell from the ladder through the opening above the guardrail to a second story concrete landing. No one witnessed the decedent fall. An office employee saw the victim after the fall occurred and informed the decedent's co-worker that his partner had fallen. The co-worker ran to the decedent and remained with him until paramedics arrived. The decedent was transported by the paramedics to a local hospital where he underwent emergency treatment. He was pronounced dead at 12:10 a.m. on September 16, 1994. The CA/FACE investigator concluded that in order to prevent similar future occurrences employers should: 1. implement and maintain a written Illness and Injury Prevention Program (IIPP). 2. require the use of scaffolds when employees are doing work in locations which cannot be safely accessed with a ladder or when safety belts and lanyards are not appropriate. 3. require that all equipment such as ladders be inspected on a regular basis so that employees are not at risk when using them.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Maintenance Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management Staff Development Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Injuries Injury-prevention Ladders Maintenance-workers Occupational-health-programs Occupational-safety-programs OSHA Region 9 Personal-protection Personal-protective-equipment Protective-equipment Protective-measures Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Safety-programs Scaffolds Step-ladders Training Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis Work-areas Work-operations Work-performance Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Construction ; Falls ; Hispanic ; Falls - Construction - Commercial
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE94CA017
• 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:20027044
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2007-114515
• 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 94CA017, 1995 Mar ; :1-5
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1995
• 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:bc52ada5056b244c4fa7dda378941e48ff1d53ff026873feecac071943b9eef30cfac7e48732cef824c4cf30a4c2d0e10c0a55e4f8574f35088e5115c7929858
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/169030/cdc_169030_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 16.30 KB ]