Gutter product installer dies as a result of falling 22.5 feet from a roof in Maryland

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• Personal Author:
  Schneiderman, Aaron I. ; Ticer, Letha
• Corporate Authors:
  Maryland Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (Maryland FACE) ; Maryland. Division of Labor and Industry
• Description:
  A 26-year-old male gutter product installer died when he fell 22.5 feet from the roof of a single family dwelling to the ground below. The victim had accessed the roof to survey the job and to develop a work-plan. The victim wore no personal protective equipment as he walked upon the steeply pitched roof. The victim asked the helper who remained on the ground to obtain equipment from the truck. Moments later when the helper and another co-worker looked toward the house the victim was not in sight. The two employees began to search for the victim and found him on the ground behind the building. The victim had fallen from the roof, struck his head on a slate walkway, and hemorrhaged copiously from the nose and mouth. The emergency medical service (EMS) was notified and responded within ten minutes. Upon arrival the EMS determined that resuscitation efforts were not possible because of the severity of injury. The Maryland FACE investigator suggests that, to prevent similar occurrences employers should: 1. develop, implement, and enforce a safety and health program to instruct employees in hazard recognition and to provide clear guidance on safe work procedures and safe work practices
  
  2. ensure that work performed at elevations above six feet is always reviewed prior to initiation to formulate a work plan that addresses the unique safety concerns of the job and the personal protective equipment required to safely complete the job
  
  3. ensure that all jobs performed at elevations are assessed to determine the safest feasible means to bring workers to the elevation required for task completion.
  
  
• Content Notes:
  Publication Date provided by FACE program
  
  not printed on the report
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-potential Accident-prevention Construction-equipment Construction-industry Construction-workers Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 3 Personal-protection Personal-protective-equipment Protective-equipment Roofers Roofing-industry Traumatic-injuries Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Construction ; Falls ; Falls - Construction - Residential ; Falls - Construction - Roofs
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE94MD015
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3
• 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:20026138
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2007-107273
• 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 94MD015, 1994 Aug ; :1-6
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1994
• Performing Organization:
  Maryland Division of Labor and Industry
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  31-33 - Manufacturing - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1993/09/30
• End Date:
  1998/09/29
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4219e881fc405249990137e9255dad24c7f94189d7d17cccf39d0f46738a364354a50daaffe8858a12421195e61135acb56f477b849814d075aaa23b17cfdce6
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170321/cdc_170321_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 25.85 KB ]