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Cleaner Falls 35 Feet To His Death Through Temporary Roof Opening, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Cleaner Falls 35 Feet To His Death Through Temporary Roof Opening, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Fatality Case Reports--Falls
On February 23, 2004, a 50-year-old male cleaner died when he fell approximately 35 feet through a temporary roof opening and was impaled on a piece of equipment on the factory floor. He had been cleaning an exhaust fan on a factory roof with a pressure washer. He and two coworkers had removed the fan from its casing creating a temporary roof opening and set the fan beside the roof opening for cleaning. Facing the fan with his back to the opening, the cleaner apparently stepped backwards and fell through the opening. He fell onto a 1200-ton die-casting machine on …