Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 156278.015 - Employee dies of head trauma in fall while installing roof

Accident Summary Nr: 156278.015 -- Report ID: 0523300 -- Event Date: 05/09/2023
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1669766.015	05/11/2023		238160	Sja Construction Llc

Abstract: At 4:11 a.m. on May 9, 2023, an employee working as a carpenter for a roofing contractor was putting a pole barn style roof on a block garage. The employee was on the roof walking on the purlin unrolling Tyvek paper. As the employee was walking between the purlin and a truss when the purlin snapped in half. This caused the employee to fall approximately 17 feet to the concrete surface below. No fall protection was being used at the time. The employee died from blunt force trauma and multiple spots of brain bleeding.

Keywords: Abrasion, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Brain, Brain Bleed, Carpenter, Concrete, Construction, Defect, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Head, Installing, Lack of Engineering Controls, Roof, Traumatic Brain Injury, Truss

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Other building		New project or new addition			1		X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1669766.015	30	M	Fatality		Carpenters	Distance of Fall: 17 feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 17 feet Cause: Exterior carpentry Fatality Cause:

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