Apprentice roofer falls nine feet from roof and dies in California

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• Personal Author:
  Fowler, John ; Harrison, Robert
• Corporate Authors:
  California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA/FACE) ; California. Department of Health Services
• Description:
  On September 3, 1992, a 34-year-old Hispanic male apprentice roofer (victim) died after falling nine feet from a roof which was being renovated. The victim was in the process of taking a hammer up to a co-worker when the incident occurred. He was wearing ordinary street shoes which caused him to slide down the roof about ten feet falling nine feet to a brick patio below. The victim was not wearing any personal protective equipment (PPE) at the time of the incident. He survived for three days and died on September 6, 1992, at 10:45 pm. The California FACE investigator concluded that in order to prevent future similar occurrences, employers should: 1. have fall protection devices in place when employees are working on steep inclines. 2. not allow employee access to hazardous areas without the proper personal protective equipment (PPE). 3. provide and document employee safety training.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Protective Clothing Safety Safety Management Staff Development Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Construction-industry Construction-workers Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 9 Personal-protection Personal-protective-equipment Roofers Roofing-and-sheet-metal-work Roofing-industry Safety-clothing Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring 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 - Residential ; Falls - Construction - Roofs
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE92CA012
• 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:
  4 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026971
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2008-100196
• 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 92CA012, 1993 Mar ; :1-4
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1993
• 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:ddd936e5d84f2eeac9b86b170feb65acaf7e8e17dfad45e69cf1086b715dc7970c00b2b060d4c5b38272c2662ea630f7b7f03147e5bc80f38b84178cbae9ea08
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/169060/cdc_169060_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 17.12 KB ]