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Accident: 110675.015 - Employee Falls Through Roof Opening And Receives Fractures T
| Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1358090.015 | 10/19/2018 | Whalen Construction, Inc |
At 9:30 a.m. on October 18, 2018, an employee was working to remove the sheet me tal roofing of a roof to expose the steel purlins for a building addition. At so me point after the employee removed the sheet metal, a coworker maneuvered an ar ticulating boom lift near the employee to bring him down off of the roof for lun ch. The employee fell twenty-one feet through the roof opening as the employee d id not have the lanyard attached to his full-body harness when the fall occurred . The employee was hospitalized for fractures to both wrists and face and an uns pecified head injury.
Keywords:
face, fall, fall protection, fracture, head, lanyard, lift operator , roof, roof decking, roof opening, roofer, sheet metal, wrist
| End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commercial building | Alteration or rehabilitation | 1 | 23 | ||||
| Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1358090.015 | 23 | M | Hospitalized injury | Construction trades, n.e.c. | FallDist: 21 FallHt:21 Cause: Roofing FatCause: |