Roofing Estimator Dies After Falling 14 Feet From The Roof of a Shopping Center Strip Mall

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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 October 7, 1993, a 52-year-old male roofing company estimator was critically injured after falling 14 feet from the roof of a shopping mall. The incident occurred as the victim was inspecting the flat roof of the mall for water leaks. The victim climbed onto a sloped roof that fronted the flat roof and lost his footing on the shingles, falling to the pavement below. He was hospitalized and later died of complications related to his injury on October 15, 1993. NJDOH FACE investigators concluded that, to prevent similar occurrences in the future, these safety guidelines should be followed: 1. Employers should develop and implement a comprehensive safety program that includes (but is not limited to) training in recognizing hazardous situations and the use of fall protection devices. 2. Building designers should consider installing devices to facilitate fall protection systems during the design and construction of new buildings.
• 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-industry Construction-workers Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 2 Protective-materials Protective-measures Roofers Roofing-industry 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/NIOSHSFACE93NJ094
• 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:
  4 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026567
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2013-109349
• 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 93NJ094, 1994 Apr ; :1-4
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1994
• 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-512:4883a95a9177b0584cbc704449fdf4f0f2779f775f0bb8b3b027ea6967ec9f34e72c352503a4cac5fe59d429cb2ac418ced1830c84a58cfc7368a101203049a7
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170086/cdc_170086_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 69.33 KB ]