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Accident: 123160.015 - Employee Is Killed In Fall Through Deteriorated Roof

**Accident: 123160.015 -- Report ID: 0420600 -- Event Date: 01/13/2020**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1455758.015	01/13/2020		Centimark Corporation

At 8:31 a.m. on January 13, 2020, Employee #1, employed by a roofing company, wa s engaged in reroofing activity at a one-story commercial building. He was remo ving old roofing layers down to the structural metal deck. The metal deck, whic h was deteriorated and corroded away from the open web steel joist and beams, fa iled to hold the employee's weight. The employee fell through the metal deck to the concrete surface, a fall height of 22.8 feet. Employee #1 sustained skull fractures and blunt force traumatic brain injury and was killed.

Keywords: blunt force trauma, brain, construction, dismantling, fall, fall protection, floor hole, fracture, repair, roof, roof decking, roofer, skull, structural collapse

Accident Details
End Use		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
Commercial building		Alteration or rehabilitation			1	23	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation	Construction
1	1455758.015	51	M	Fatality		Roofers	FallDist: 23 FallHt:23 Cause: Roofing FatCause:

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