OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #689265
CARLSON CRAFT
NORTH MANKATO, MN—
Event description
Employee injured in fall through roof opening
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and a coworker were preparing a roof so that roofers could cover it with new panels. Air conditioning units had been removed the previous May in pre paration for a new roof and the roof box had been covered with plywood sheets an d canvas so that rain would not enter the building. Employee #1 picked up a 4 by 8 sheet of plywood by himself and backed 6 feet into an opening, falling 14 ft 9 in. to a concrete floor. He sustained a fractured skull, toe, and ribs. If Emp loyee #1 had waited for his coworker to help him lift the three sheets of plywoo d off the roof box, the accident would not have occurred.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 40 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 519
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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