OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221562788

SJA CONSTRUCTION LLC

COLUMBUS, WI— 2023-05-09T00:00:00

Event: Abrasion, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Brain, Brain Bleed, Carpenter, Concrete, Construction, Defect, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Head, Installing, Lack of Engineering Controls, Roof, Traumatic Brain Injury, Truss
NAICS: 238160
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #346697667
Employer profile: SJA CONSTRUCTION LLC
Summary number: 221562788
Report ID: 0523300
Project type: A
Construction end-use: H

Event description

Employee dies of head trauma in fall while installing roof

Investigation abstract

At 4:11 a.m. on May 9, 2023, an employee working as a carpenter for a roofing contractor was putting a pole barn style roof on a block garage. The employee was on the roof walking on the purlin unrolling Tyvek paper. As the employee was walking between the purlin and a truss when the purlin snapped in half. This caused the employee to fall approximately 17 feet to the concrete surface below. No fall protection was being used at the time. The employee died from blunt force trauma and multiple spots of brain bleeding.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 30 M

Event type
5

Occupation code
567

Fall distance
17

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