Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 110675.015 - Employee falls through roof opening and receives fractures t

Accident Summary Nr: 110675.015 -- Report ID: 1050210 -- Event Date: 10/18/2018
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1358090.015	10/19/2018		236220	Whalen Construction, Inc

Abstract: At 9:30 a.m. on October 18, 2018, an employee was working to remove the sheet metal roofing of a roof to expose the steel purlins for a building addition. At some point after the employee removed the sheet metal, a coworker maneuvered an articulating boom lift near the employee to bring him down off of the roof for lunch. The employee fell twenty-one feet through the roof opening as the employee did 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 unspecified head injury.

Keywords: Face, Fall, Fall Protection, Fracture, Head, Lanyard, Lift operator , Roof, Roof Decking, Roof Opening, Roofer, Sheet Metal, Wrist

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		Alteration or rehabilitation			1	23

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1358090.015	23	M	Hospitalized injury		Construction trades, n.e.c.	Distance of Fall: 21 feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 21 feet Cause: Roofing Fatality Cause:

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