A roofing worker in Piasa, Illinois fell 27 feet to his death on Aug. 4th, 2014 because his employer, Mid-State Construction & Roofing Inc., failed to provide fall protection, according to OSHA.
The 33-year-old worker, who’d been employed by the Beecher City-based company for 14 years, was installing wood blocking to create a finished roof edge on the perimeter of a high school gymnasium. While using a battery-powered, hand-held impact driver, the bit broke and the employee lost his balance and fell over the edge, suffering blunt force trauma.