Iron Worker Dies After Falling 17 Feet While Building a Roof

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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 September 21, 1997, a 44-year-old iron worker was fatally injured after falling through a roof opening of a building under construction. The incident occurred while the victim and his co-workers were laying steel roof decking sheets at the site of a new retail store. The crew had finished decking a section of the roof and was covering up a roof opening when the victim apparently slipped or tripped into the opening. He fell 17 feet to the concrete floor below and died of his injuries the next day. NJDHSS FACE investigators concluded that, to prevent similar incidents in the future, these safety guidelines should be followed: 1. Employers should consider using fall protection during steel erection activities. 2. Employers should develop, implement, and enforce a comprehensive employee safety program.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-potential Accident-prevention Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 2 Personal-protection Personal-protective-equipment Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-practices Safety-programs Training Traumatic-injuries Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Construction ; Falls ; Falls - Construction - Commercial ; Prevention through Design (PtD) ; Falls - Construction - Roofs
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE97NJ086
• 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:20026662
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2013-108447
• 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 97NJ086, 1998 Aug ; :1-6
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1998
• 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-512:9b6fb282ed0ed061b54342516cd79d1e1d1860d24d0cace6ea9bde4bc316fdcb17da0a72a5c5a8c0617a5d7b8b0abf6367f312b886cd07134c88d0199da33d77
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170027/cdc_170027_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 23.03 KB ]