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Accident: 70662.015 - Worker Installing Plywood Sheets For Roof Falls And Is Kille

**Accident: 70662.015 -- Report ID: 0420600 -- Event Date: 01/31/2015**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1025189.015	02/03/2015		Gr Complete Framing Inc.

At 8:30 a.m. on January 31, 2015, Employee #1, employed by a home builder, was w orking at a multiemployer construction site. He was installing plywood sheets o n the roof of a building under construction. Employee #1 fell through the rafte rs on to a concrete slab, a fall height of 16 feet. His head hit the concrete s lab, sustaining blunt force trauma. Employee #1 was killed. The subsequent inv estigation determined that Employee #1 was using a personal fall arrest system, but it was not properly adjusted and failed to arrest the fall.

Keywords: brain, building, construction, fall, fall protection, head, installing, roof, roofer

Accident Details
End Use		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
Single family or duplex dwelling		New project or new addition		$250,000 to $500,000	1	16	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation	Construction
1	1025189.015	39	M	Fatality		Roofers	FallDist: FallHt:16 Cause: Roofing FatCause:

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