OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14348114
WESTSIDE WRECKING AND SALVAGE CO
SAVANNAH, GA—
Event description
Employee suffers multiple fractures in fall from flat roof
Investigation abstract
On May 18, 1984, Employee #1 and four coworkers were working on the demolition o ollarbone and a fractured pelvis, and was hospitalized. There was no fall protec tion for the employees. There were no safety belts and lanyards or hand rails or trash chutes with rails. f the old Chatham County Jail. They had been assigned to remove scrap metal from the fourth floor of the building, which was to be converted into apartments. Th e scrap was sections of jail cells that had been cut into small pieces. Two work ers would pass the scrap metal sections outside through a window to a flat roof section of the fourth floor. Employee #1 and a coworker would stand near the edg e of the roof and together toss a section of scrap metal to a scrap heap on the ground. Employee #1 fell approximately 32 feet from the roof to the concrete. He sustained a fractured sternum, fractured ribs, a fractured wrist, a fractured c
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 25 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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