OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #690677
PAULSEN ROOFING INC
HOLLADAY, UT—
Event description
Employee remains unconscious after fall from roof
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was working on a steep pitched roof at about the 25 ft level at the last gable end when he backed off the end of a roofing plank and fell to a lower level flat roof. He apparently landed on his head and neck, fracturing two vert ebrae and sustaining a closed head injury. After a week, Employee #1 remains unc onscious. Brackets and planks were provided from the apex to the eave of the fla t roof; however, the gable end was unprotected.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 27 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 20
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 595
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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