Inspection Detail

Inspection: 1319480.015 - Crawford Seamless Gutters

Inspection Information - Office: Omaha Area Office

Investigation Summary

At 12:45 p.m. on May 29, 2018, an employee was working for a roofing and guttering contractor. He and some coworkers were working at a residential structure (a house). They were on the roof, re-roofing the house. The roof had a 10 in 12 pitch. At approximately 1:00 p.m., he had come down off the roof, due to rain that had come through the area. After the rain had passed, at around 1:30 p.m., the employee and his coworkers went back up on the roof to finish the re-roofing job they had started. The employee was not tied off at the time of the incident. He climbed a ladder at the back of the house and climbed up the roof to the peak. As he was walking on the peak of the roof, he lost his footing and slipped on the roof surface. He fell 3.59 meters (11 feet, 9.5 inches) to a concrete patio below. He sustained blunt force trauma to head, and he had developed a large brain bleed, or hemorrhage. He was transported to a hospital in Omaha, NE. He was admitted and placed on life support. Four days after he had been placed on life support, the doctors told the family that the employee would not get any better. The family decided to remove the employee from life support. He died a few hours later.

Keywords: Construction, Fall, Fall Protection, Head, Hemorrhage, PPE, Roof, Roofer, Skull, Slope, Sloping