Accident Report Detail

Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA

Accident: 116619.015 - Employee Falls From Roof, Sustains Fractured Spine And Brain

**Accident: 116619.015 -- Report ID: 0953220 -- Event Date: 02/23/2019**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1394158.015	03/11/2019		The Original Roofing Company, Llc

At 8:00 a.m. on February 23, 2019, Employee #1 and a coworker, employed by a roo fing company, were installing a drip edge on the roof of a new two-story residen tial building as part of a multiemployer construction project. Employee #1 slip ped and fell, a fall height of 20 feet. He first struck a brick wall and then t he ground. Emergency services transported the employee to the hospital, where h e was admitted for treatment of a fractured spine and a brain hemorrhage.

Keywords: back, blunt force trauma, brain, brick, fall, fall protection, fracture, hemorrhage, installing, multiemployer, residential construction, roof, roofer, slip, spine, struck against, wall

Accident Details
End Use		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
Single family or duplex dwelling		New project or new addition			2	20

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation	Construction
1	1394158.015	39	M	Hospitalized injury		Roofers	FallDist: 20 FallHt:20 Cause: Roofing FatCause:

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