FACE Reports

On the day of the incident, the worker arrived at the company shop a few minutes before his employer. When the employer arrived, he saw the truck’s rear cargo doors open, walked toward them and looked inside.

A 20-year-old wash bay attendant had worked for his employer, a commercial trucking company that transports compressed liquefied petroleum gases, for five months.

A 29-year-old roofer was on a crew installing roofing insulation and skylights on a large industrial building. He had worked for his employer for 16 months.

A 52-year-old press operator had been employed for about seven years at a facility that fabricated motor vehicle brake system components. Primary production involved stamping and forming parts from steel rolls.

A 52-year-old finish carpenter with 20 years of experience and a co-worker were at a newly erected commercial building to install plywood panels on the ceiling.

A 36-year-old worker was employed by a family-run beef slaughterhouse. He had extensive experience and was working as a kill floor manager.

A 76-year-old truck driver with 15 years of experience driving dump trucks with trailers was employed by an excavation contractor. On the day of the incident, he drove a truck to his employer’s property to drop off the attached trailer.

A welder with more than 40 years of experience was constructing the leading edge of an aboveground storage tank roof with sheets of metal sheathing.

A lumber mill employee was preparing to cut lumber for a pallet order. His workstation was located inside a lumber shed between a forklift travel pathway and lumber storage area.

A 41-year-old framer had been working for two weeks at a residential subcontractor at the site of a new apartment complex. The framer and a co-worker planned to use two scissor lifts in tandem to raise and insert a glulam wooden beam into the side of a horizontal I-beam more than 8 feet above the concrete floor.