Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14458418

KELLER BROTHERS INC.

Event
ROOF, UNSECURED, WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, FALL, FALL PROTECTION, ROOF OPENING, UNGUARDED
NAICS
000000
Inspection type
Accident-driven
Activity number
#2842821
Employer profile
KELLER BROTHERS INC.
Summary number
14458418
Report ID
352440

Event description

Employee injured in 29 ft fall through roof opening

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 and a coworker were moving a pile of 4 by 8 sheets of plywood from a roof. They picked up the last sheet and started walking when Employee #1 steppe d into a 4 ft square roof opening. He fell 29 ft to the concrete ground floor, l anding on a small pile of 4 in. pipe. The stack of plywood had been covering the opening in the roof.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 29 M

    Nature of injury
    12
    Part of body
    19
    Event type
    5
    Source
    42
    Occupation code
    869
    Human factor
    4
    Environmental factor
    13
    Task assigned
    1

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