Accident 201280336 - Fell Through Skylight 20 Feet to His Death - Fatality
Inspection: 300975869 Open: 06/23/1998 SCI: 3564
On June 22, 1998 at approximately 09:30A.M. Employee #1 was walking backward on the plant’s roof carrying a sheet of plywood when he fell through a roof skylight cover. The employee had just received the sheet of plywood through another damaged skylight cover that he was going to cover with the sheet of plywood until a new cover was received for installation. The employee fell approximately 20 feet to the plant’s floor below. The employee died from the injuries obtained in the fall.

Accident 201401676 - Fall - Hospitalized Contusions/ Abrasions
Inspection: 127103018 Open: 04/01/1998 SIC 1761
While installing roofing material worker was chasing a piece of wind blown insulation and stepped into an unguarded skylight opening. He fell 20 feet to floor below.

Accident 201500444 - Fell Through Skylight - Hospitalized Fracture
Inspection: 119669943 Open: 03/09/1998 SIC 1731
The accident took place on January 8, 1998, at about 10:00 am. As reported, the injured employee fell 18 feet through a skylight onto the concrete floor. On the day of the accident, the injured employee was assigned to help the lead person in locating and finding the shutdown power control for each air-handling unit (AHU) of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system. At the time of the accident, the injured employee was working up on the roof of a building and he tripped over a skylight curb and fell onto the skylight dome which broke under the impact and he fell 18 feet through the skylight on to the concrete floor.

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