Roofing Work Can Be Deadly: Always Use a Personal Fall Arrest System

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• Corporate Authors:
  New York State Department of Health
• Description:
  Personal fall arrest systems protect roofers from injury and death by limiting the distance that people can fall. Your employer must provide you with a personal fall arrest system that meets Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and American National Standards Institute (ANSI Z359) requirements. Your employer is also required to train you on how to use this equipment. What is a personal fall arrest system? A full body harness; Connectors and lanyards to limit fall distance; Tied to a fixed anchor. True stories from the field: A 20-year-old worker from Honduras died on his second day of work. He was removing shingles into a plastic garbage bin. He lost his balance as he threw the garbage bin into a dump truck below. He died after falling into the dump truck and hitting his head. Use personal fall arrest systems. A college student on summer break died while working for his family's roofing business. He fell onto a slate and concrete walkway below. He was patching and painting nail holes and wore a harness, but it was not tied-off. Tie-off your body harness. A roofing supervisor in his 50s died from a 20-foot fall while doing an inspection to see if a roof was safe for workers. He slipped on ice and fell onto the concrete below. No exceptions! Always use your personal fall arrest system. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidental Falls Accidents Construction Industry Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Fall Protection Falls Harnesses Injury Prevention Roofers Roofing Industry
• Publisher:
  New York State Department of Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Lay Publication
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20066850
• Citation:
  Albany, NY: New York State Department of Health, 2019 Jul; :1-2
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2019
• Performing Organization:
  New York State Department of Health/Health Research Incorporated
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Roofing work can be deadly: always use a personal fall arrest system
• End Date:
  20260630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/231009/cdc_231009_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.10 MB ]