Iron Worker Dies in 42 Foot Fall After Stepping Through Roof Insulation

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• Corporate Authors:
  New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE) ; New Jersey. Department of Health and Senior Services. Occupational Health Service
• Description:
  On May 18, 1999, a 37-year-old iron worker was killed after falling through the roof of a building under construction. The incident occurred while the victim and his co-workers were laying fiberglass insulation panels and steel roof decking sheets at the site of a new refrigerated warehouse. At around noontime the crew had stopped for lunch and was trying to get off of the roof on a personnel lift that had just broken down. Fearing that the catering truck would leave, the victim went to the roof edge and yelled to the driver to wait. He stepped off the steel roof onto a fiberglass panel that broke under his weigh, causing him to fall 42 feet to the concrete floor below. NJDHSS FACE investigators concluded that, to prevent similar incidents in the future, these safety guidelines should be followed: 1. Employers must require fall protection when employees are constructing or working near leading edges. 2. Employers should develop, implement, and enforce a comprehensive employee safety program. 3. Employers should regularly inspect and maintain personnel lifts and other powered equipment.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-potential Accident-prevention Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Injuries Injury-prevention Occupational-accidents Occupational-hazards Occupational-safety-programs OSHA Region 2 Personal-protection Personal-protective-equipment Roofing-and-sheet-metal-work Roofing-industry Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-practices Safety-programs Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis Work-environment Work-performance Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Prevention through Design (PtD)
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE99NJ041
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  New Jersey ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  6 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026692
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2013-100204
• 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 99NJ041, 2000 Jan ; :1-6
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2000
• Performing Organization:
  New Jersey Department of Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1991/09/30
• End Date:
  2005/08/31
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:45fec8ea2d390d7b13deed429c654049198cff970c9beaa3c60be5ec4c5d33e081a5ae101ad414defd26280218f70cfd7aac3d2a46f0dbea12c4103a0eb0e316
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/169241/cdc_169241_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 30.04 KB ]