OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221595531

EMPIRE ROOFING LLC

TITUSVILLE, FL— 2023-08-29T00:00:00

Event: Abdomen, Adhesive, Blunt force trauma, Concrete Floor, Contusion, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Fracture, Head, Hemorrhage, Laceration, Liver, Rib, Roof, Skull, Spleen, Sprayed, Torso, Tripped, Walking Backward
NAICS: 238160
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #346951577
Employer profile: EMPIRE ROOFING LLC
Summary number: 221595531
Report ID: 0419730
Project type: B
Construction end-use: B

Event description

Employee is killed in fall from roof

Investigation abstract

At 2:00 p.m. on August 29, 2023, an employee was spraying Olybond 500 insulation lacerations to the spleen and liver. The employee was killed. adhesive on the roof. As the employee was laying down the Olybond 500 insulation adhesive, he was walking backwards while not wearing fall protection. While walking backwards, he tripped on the edge of the roof, falling off the roof down through a screen lanai onto the concrete patio below. The employee suffered blunt force trauma to the head, resulting in multiple contusions, a skull fracture, hemorrhaging and severe cerebral edema. The employee suffered blunt force trauma to the torso, resulting in multiple rib fractures and hemorrhagic lacerations of multiple thoracic and abdominal organs. The employee sustained

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 30 M

Event type
5

Occupation code
595

Fall distance
18

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