Carpenter Dies After Falling 19 Feet Through a Floor Opening

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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 10, 1991, a 56-year-old male carpenter died after falling 19 feet through a floor opening on the second floor of a house under construction. The victim was cutting sheets of plywood and handing them up through the roof trusses to a co-worker when he apparently backed into an unguarded opening for a stairwell and fell into the basement. NJDOH FACE investigators concluded that, in order to prevent similar incidents in the future, the following safety guidelines should be followed: 1. Employers should follow 29 CFR 1926.500(b)(1) which requires that all floor openings must be guarded with railings
  
  2. employers should conduct a daily job hazard analysis of all work activities with the participation of the workers
  
  3. employers should develop, implement, and enforce a comprehensive employee safety program
  
  4. employers should become familiar with available resources on work-related safety standards and safe work practices
  
  5. employers should have an emergency response plan in place to quickly obtain assistance in the event of an emergency.
• Content Notes:
  Formerly NJ9202
• Subjects:
  • Accident Prevention
  • Accidents
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Construction Industry
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
  • Safety Management
• Keywords:
  • Accident-analysis
  • Accident-potential
  • Accident-prevention
  • Accidents
  • Injuries
  • Injury-prevention
  • Safety-education
  • Safety-equipment
  • Safety-practices
  • Safety-measures
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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Construction ; Falls ; Falls - Construction - Residential ; Prevention through Design (PtD)
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE91NJ018
• 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:20026524
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2013-104901
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE 91NJ018, 1992 Jan ; :1-4
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1992
• 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
• Resource Number:
  FACE-91NJ018
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170121/cdc_170121_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 66.82 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:df48b71398532e89c3d21738f34ad34f4e81a83adf6f18d11d4a674231ec92215a3cb7a8c5d9ebb0299d32f8ba2a6395fb19574ba0d5d691df361ca3537aa2b8