Accident Report Detail

Accident: 135888.015 - Employee Falls From Roof And Is Killed

**Accident: 135888.015 -- Report ID: 0215000 -- Event Date: 05/27/2021**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1533454.015	05/27/2021		Richmond Construction Inc.

At 8:37 a.m. on May 27, 2021, an employee completed jackhammering a section of r oof as part of a demolition job and began to walk along the exposed edge. At som e point, a section of the roof that the employee walked on broke apart; the empl oyee fell approximately sixty feet and was killed.

Keywords: demolition, fall, fall protection, jackhammer, roof, roof collapse, roof opening

Accident Details
End Use		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
Commercial building		Demolition			6		X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation	Construction
1	1533454.015	49	M	Fatality		Construction laborers	FallDist: 60 FallHt: Cause: Demolition FatCause:

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