Industrial Painter Dies After a 24 Foot Fall From an Elevated Pipeline

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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:
  A 24-year-old male industrial painter died on July 23, 1991, one day after he received injuries in a 24 foot fall from an elevated pipeline. The victim and his co-worker were painting elevated pipelines at a tank farm when he apparently lost his balance and fell to the asphalt below. NJDOH FACE personnel concluded that, in order to prevent similar incidents in the future, the following safety guidelines should be followed: 1. A job hazard analysis of each job site should be performed by the employer with the participation of employees
  
  2. Employers must train employees in safe work practices and use of safety equipment and should require consistent use of the equipment
  
  3. Engineering modifications should be made to the pipeline structure by the owner of the tank farm to facilitate the use of fall protection devices
  
  4. The fall protection and process systems should be separate and distinct.
  
  
• Content Notes:
  Formerly NJ9108
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Occupational Health Paint Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-potential Accident-prevention Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 2 Painters Painting Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-practices Traumatic-injuries

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Construction ; Falls ; Falls - Construction - Commercial ; Prevention through Design (PtD)
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE91NJ011
• 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 pddf
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026522
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2013-101692
• 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 91NJ011, 1992 May ; :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
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a01ef2cfbbf762d6f1c028d14fc26fcd0b67d1a494a9cdde03faf4da44037fed48b89e6e8698be93afda6e0ca86972308c76d3f3e7e48a728ff76112ddc65e5d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170123/cdc_170123_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 50.97 KB ]