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Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Report: A 16-Year-Old Roofer Helper Dies After 28-Foot Fall Down an Unguarded Elevator Shaft Opening in Pennsylvania
On June 10, 2000, a l6-year-old roofer helper (the victim) died after falling approximately 28 feet down an unguarded elevator shaft opening. The victim's employer (the victim's father) had been subcontracted to put a roof on a two-story commercial office building under construction. On the day of the incident, the victim and his 25-year old brother were cutting and stacking lumber for roof trusses on the second floor of the structure. To cut the lumber of trusses, the brothers were placing it on wood sawhorses. They had set the sawhorses up in the vicinity of a 19-foot, 7 inch by 25-foot, 2-inch unguarded elevator shaft opening in the floor.
Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Report: A 16-Year-Old Roofer Helper Dies After 28-Foot Fall Down an Unguarded Elevator Shaft Opening in Pennsylvania
On June 10, 2000, a l6-year-old roofer helper (the victim) died after falling approximately 28 feet down an unguarded elevator shaft opening. The victim's employer (the victim's father) had been subcontracted to put a roof on a two-story commercial office building under construction. On the day of the incident, the victim and his 25-year old brother were cutting and stacking lumber for roof trusses on the second floor of the structure. To cut the lumber of trusses, the brothers were placing it on wood sawhorses. They had set the sawhorses up in the vicinity of a 19-foot, 7 inch by 25-foot, 2-inch unguarded elevator shaft opening in the floor.
Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Report: A 16-Year-Old Roofer Helper Dies After 28-Foot Fall Down an Unguarded Elevator Shaft Opening in Pennsylvania
2002
10 pages
Report
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English