[RE-wrenches] deadly fall off of roof

Kirk kirk at vtsolar.com
Fri Sep 24 09:37:50 PDT 2010


The two instances are not the same. The skylight accident happened  
previous to April 2010, and the company is listed in the accident  
report  , but I don't recall the name. They are a large CA electrical  
contractor.

Kirk Herander
VSE

On Sep 24, 2010, at 11:25 AM, "Bill Brooks" <billbrooks7 at yahoo.com>  
wrote:

> Marco,
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> The company was purposely not identified. I believe the young man  
> fell through a skylight while moving equipment during construction.  
> Much more likely way to die since most people assume a skylight will  
> bear their weight if they fall against it. Edge of roof falls  
> definitely occur, but self preservation instincts are usually much  
> more heightened in these areas.
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> Bill.
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> From: re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org [mailto:re-wrenches- 
> bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Marco Mangelsdorf
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 7:09 PM
> To: 'RE-wrenches'
> Subject: [RE-wrenches] deadly fall off of roof
>
>
>
> A 30-year-old PV installer fell to his death back in April at job  
> site in CA.  He backed off of a roof accidentally and was not  
> wearing any fall protection.
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> I have the official report of the accident, but the “multi-state ful 
> l-service solar provider” that has “approximately 650  
> employees” was not identified.
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> Anyone know which company this was?
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> Thanks,
>
> marco
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