Construction Equipment
Ag Equipment
Roadbuilding
Dealers
Business
Technology
Tag: roofer
Safety
OSHA opens investigation after Missouri contractor fails to report roofer’s death
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration last month opened an investigation into an unreported fall that killed a worker on a Missouri jobsite. According to a report from the Leader, 36-year-old roofer Nathan Scott Hemmen died after he fell while installing roof trusses. Hemmen suffered a 10-foot fall onto a concrete floor Oct. 21 […]
December 8, 2015
Home
Roofer killed by fall on Florida jobsite
A short fall proved deadly recently for a roofer in Florida. According to a report from Naples News, 32-year-old Selvin Velasquez Nuñez was killed after falling from the roof of a home under construction in North Naples. The Collier County Sheriff’s Department tells the paper Nuñez fell from about 10 feet. He was airlifted to […]
October 16, 2015
Safety
Chicago construction worker dies after fall through roof
A worker with a roofing company died over the weekend after a fall through a Chicago building. While working on the roof of a building in the city’s West Town neighborhood, Filiberto Herrera-Mendez, 46, fell through a hatch in the roof, according to a report from the Chicago Tribune. Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford said Herrera-Mendez, […]
June 9, 2014
Page 1 of 1