OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14464879
MCDONALD CONSTRUCTION CO
INDPLS, IN—
Event description
Employee injured in 32 ft fall through roof
Investigation abstract
At approximately 7:00 a.m. on August 15, 1985, Employee #1, age 20, and three co workers were on a roof shaking out 2 ft wide by 40 ft long sections of roofing m aterial. The sections were to be draped over two purlin supports, with each pane l having a 7 ft overlap. Employee #1 was laying out the anchor clips and took tw o steps onto a section when he fell 32 ft onto a pile of loose fill dirt. He lan ded on his feet, and fractured a lower vertebra and his left wrist. Employee #1 and a coworker indicated that the purlins were not overlapped properly.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 20 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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