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Accident: 126500.015 - Employee Is Struck By Lightning, Falls From Roof, And Is Kil
| Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1476693.015 | 05/29/2020 | Red Stag Contracting, Inc. |
At 2:45 p.m. on May 28, 2020, an employee and two coworkers were on a roof packi ng up equipment to leave the job site due to severe weather. At some point, the employee was struck by lightning and fell from the roof. The employee received a severed spinal cord, multiple vertebrae fractures, skull fracture, brain hemato ma, contusions to the lungs and hypoxic respiratory failure that killed him.
Keywords:
brain, contusion, fall, fall protection, fracture, lightning, lung, respiratory, roof, roofer, severed, skull, spine, struck by, vertebra, weather
| End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
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| Multi-family dwelling | Alteration or rehabilitation | 1 | 8 | X | |||
| Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
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| 1 | 1476693.015 | 35 | M | Fatality | Roofers | FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Roofing FatCause: |
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| 2 | 1476693.015 | 27 | M | Non Hospitalized injury | Roofers | FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Roofing FatCause: |
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| 3 | 1476693.015 | 46 | M | Non Hospitalized injury | Roofers | FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Roofing FatCause: |