Painter falls from an apartment complex window 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:
  A 38-year-old male Korean painter (victim) died after falling approximately 40 feet from a third story apartment complex window, where he had been doing preparation work prior to beginning a paint job. The victim was doing a routine job when the incident occurred. A ladder and a broken screen were found next to him on the concrete sidewalk below. The apartment tenant had last seen the victim removing a curtain rod from above a window. The tenant did not realize what had happened until she heard some commotion outside and looked from her window and discovered paramedics working on the victim below. The California FACE investigator concluded that, in order to prevent future similar occurrences, employers should: 1. have and implement a written Injury and Illness Prevention Plan so that employees are aware of the workplace hazards and how to best avoid them. 2. conduct a job site survey to identify potential hazards, implement appropriate control measures, and provide subsequent training to employees that specifically addresses all identified site hazards. 3. have safety devices installed on all ladders which would prevent them from sliding.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Occupational Health Paint Safety Safety Management Staff Development Workplace
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Construction-workers Injuries Injury-prevention Ladders OSHA Region 9 Painters 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 ; Falls ; Foreign Born Workers
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE92CA009
• 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:20026967
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2008-100193
• 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 92CA009, 1992 Nov ; :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-512:38185c826140fb0e817231ae9903dd21969a0922cffa625e1850eb3d9a264161a6b7f79c0077933de4e9e490bed1ff0d714e1fe7c64d32786331ff9d7b833c57
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/169063/cdc_169063_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 17.05 KB ]