Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201066412 - Employee is injured in fall from roof

Accident Summary Nr: 201066412 -- Report ID: 0950632 -- Event Date: 06/03/2003
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
300794328	06/04/2003	1742	238310	Freer Construction

Abstract: On June 2, 2003, Employee #1, a laborer of Freer Construction, was removing facia board above the garage, on the second-story roof of a single family home. Employee #1 was bent near the edge of the roof and hammering the facia board to remove it. He lost his balance and fell 17 ft to the concrete driveway. Employee #1 fractured ribs, T8 and T9 vertebrae, and sustained a facial nerve laceration, as well as shoulder injury. He was hospitalized. Employee #1 was not wearing any fall protection equipment and no other engineering controls or PPE was utilized by him. There was a scaffold at the job site, but this scaffold was too short to for Employee #1 to reach the facia board. Thus, Employee #1 decided to work off of the roof.

Keywords: FRACTURE, ROOF, SHOULDER, CARPENTER, CONSTRUCTION, LACERATION, RIB, FALL, LOST BALANCE, VERTEBRA

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Single family or duplex dwelling		New project or new addition		Under $50,000	2	17

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	300794328			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Carpenters	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 17 feet Cause: Demolition Fatality Cause: Fall from roof

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