OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221604937

FCX2023XJW184X0031 - FIRE -N- ICE HEATING AND AIR CONDITIONING, LLC

PHOENIX, AZ— 2023-09-21T00:00:00

Event: Beam, Building, Compressor, Concrete Floor, Fall, Fall From Elevation, HVAC, Roof, Slip
NAICS: 238220
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #346991748
Employer profile: FCX2023XJW184X0031 - FIRE -N- ICE HEATING AND AIR CONDITIONING, LLC
Summary number: 221604937
Report ID: 0950411
Project type: C
Construction end-use: B

Event description

Employee is killed in fall from roof

Investigation abstract

At 9:35 p.m. on September 21, 2023, two employees, Employee #1 and a coworker, were on the flat roof of a three-story apartment building, approximately 32 feet above the ground to replace a compressor in a broken AC unit. The two employees then began looking around the roof for left over brazing rods that they might have left behind during a previous visit, because they forgot their brazing rods in the vehicle. Employee #1 then walked on to an approximately 7-inch-wide by 25-foot-long decorative roof beam, and he slipped and fell to the concrete ground. The employee was killed.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 35 M

Event type
5

Occupation code
999

Fall distance
32

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