Ace Carpentry Inc.: OSHA inspections and violations

Incident on Jun 17, 1992 (fatal): Employee dies after fall from building under construction

At approximately 12:32 p.m. on June 17, 1992, Employee #1 was working on the sec ond floor of a residential structure, assembling the side wall. He stepped off t he edge of the building and fell 19 ft 6 in. to the grade. The employee was take n to the hospital by Medivac in critical condition with head, neck, and back inj uries. At approximately 9:00 a.m. on June 21, 1992, Employee #1 died at Fairfax Hospital of apparent complications of a closed head injury after four days in th e Intensive Care Unit.

Incident on Sep 5, 1988: Employee injured in fall from roof

At approximately 7:30 a.m. on September 5, 1988, Employee #1 and coworkers were on a 28 ft high, 8:12 pitched townhouse roof, preparing to cut off the plywood o verlap on the east side. He began to nail short 2 by 4 kickplates to the roof to provide footing while they cut the plywood. The plywood was wet from rain the p revious night and Employee #1 slipped and slid feet first down the roof and then fell 28 ft to the ground. He was hospitalized with compression fractures of fou r vertebrae, a fractured right wrist, a concussion, and a bruised kidney. The em ployee should have started installing his kickplates at the eave so that he woul d have something to stand on as he worked up toward the top of the roof. There w as no catch platform in place, nor was there any fall protection, such as a safe ty belt and lifeline.