Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31

OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14252100

J H HUDSON CONSTRUCTION CO

Event
ROOF DECKING, WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, FALL, FALL PROTECTION, ROOF OPENING
NAICS
000000
Inspection type
Accident-driven
Activity number
#15023211
Employer profile
J H HUDSON CONSTRUCTION CO
Summary number
14252100
Report ID
453710

Event description

Employee killed in fall through roof decking

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 fell 18 ft 6 in. after stepping through a building's roof decking, l anding on a concrete floor. He suffered severe head injuries and died on April 2 1, 1985, at Greenville Memorial Hospital.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 43 M

    Nature of injury
    12
    Part of body
    13
    Event type
    5
    Source
    8
    Occupation code
    567
    Human factor
    1
    Environmental factor
    13
    Task assigned
    1

Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.