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Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) for Kentucky: A 53-Year-Old Male Iron Foreman Dies After Fall From Steel Decking, FACE-07-KY-071
During the fall of 2007, a 53-year-old male iron foreman died when he fell approximately 18 feet from roofing being installed on a retail building under new construction. Two work crews were installing metal decking for a roof by laying corrugated metal sheets to the joists of a retail building being constructed. All workers wore personal fall arrest systems complete with lanyards on the roof; none of the workers were tied off to the building. The foreman had accessed the work site via a 32-foot extension ladder to check on the progress of the work. After speaking to the first crew, the foreman walked along the steel metal decking and joists to talk to the second crew. When he was approximately 71 feet away from the ladder at his origination access point, he fell 18 feet to the concrete floor below. Emergency medical services were contacted. They transported the foreman to the local hospital where the local coroner pronounced him dead due to a brain injury.
Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) for Kentucky: A 53-Year-Old Male Iron Foreman Dies After Fall From Steel Decking, FACE-07-KY-071
During the fall of 2007, a 53-year-old male iron foreman died when he fell approximately 18 feet from roofing being installed on a retail building under new construction. Two work crews were installing metal decking for a roof by laying corrugated metal sheets to the joists of a retail building being constructed. All workers wore personal fall arrest systems complete with lanyards on the roof; none of the workers were tied off to the building. The foreman had accessed the work site via a 32-foot extension ladder to check on the progress of the work. After speaking to the first crew, the foreman walked along the steel metal decking and joists to talk to the second crew. When he was approximately 71 feet away from the ladder at his origination access point, he fell 18 feet to the concrete floor below. Emergency medical services were contacted. They transported the foreman to the local hospital where the local coroner pronounced him dead due to a brain injury.
Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) for Kentucky: A 53-Year-Old Male Iron Foreman Dies After Fall From Steel Decking, FACE-07-KY-071
2008
5 pages
Report
No indication
English
Police, Fire, & Emergency Services , Public Health & Industrial Medicine , Fire Services, Law Enforcement, & Criminal Justice , Emergency Services & Planning , Accident analysis , Accident prevention , Accidents , Injuries , Injury prevention , Traumatic injuries , Safety practices , Safety measures , Safety education , Work practices , Training , Iron workers , Iron working industry , Fall protection , Roofers , Personal protection , Steelworkers , Corrugated metal decking