Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221507791

PORTER ROOFING CONTRACTORS, INC

Event
Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Concrete Surface, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Installing, Roof, Skylight
NAICS
238160
Inspection type
Federal Agency
Activity number
#346302227
Employer profile
PORTER ROOFING CONTRACTORS, INC
Summary number
221507791
Report ID
0418600
Project type
C
Construction end-use
C

Event description

Employee is killed in fall from roof

Investigation abstract

At 8:30 a.m. on October 21, 2022, an employee was working with a crew replacing a skylight on an airplane hangar. The existing skylight was still in place and was being unsecured for removal when the employee walked directly into the skylight and fell to the concrete below.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 59 M

    Event type
    5
    Occupation code
    595
    Fall distance
    19

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