Inspection Detail

Inspection: 1669766.015 - Sja Construction Llc

Inspection Information - Office: Madison Area Office

Investigation Summary

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