Kabco Builders Inc.
Outcome
Kabco Builders Inc. was cited for 10 serious OSHA violations and fined $81,463 after a 62-year-old roofing laborer fell approximately 10 feet from a mobile home roof and died at the Boaz, Alabama facility in 2024 while loading shingles across an unprotected two-foot gap between a platform and the roof.
Details
Kabco Builders Inc. — 62-Year-Old Falls Through Platform-Roof Gap, Fatal (2024)
Outcome: A 62-year-old roofing laborer at Kabco Builders Inc. in Boaz, Alabama fell approximately 10 feet from a mobile home roof in 2024 and died after slipping through an unprotected two-foot gap between a platform and the roof surface; OSHA cited 10 serious violations and proposed $81,463 in penalties.
A 62-year-old employee of Kabco Builders Inc. in Boaz, Alabama was loading shingles onto a mobile home roof when he was straddling a two-foot gap between the loading platform and the roof surface. The worker slipped and fell approximately 10 feet, sustaining injuries that proved fatal.
OSHA's investigation found 10 serious violations covering the full spectrum of the employer's safety program failures: failure to provide fall protection for workers on the roof, inadequate training for roofing work at heights of four feet or more, no forklift operator training program for workers using forklifts on site, failure to require personal protective equipment during adhesive application, and lack of chemical hazard training for workers using adhesives and other roofing chemicals. OSHA proposed $81,463 in penalties.
Primary Source: US Department of Labor cites Alabama mobile home manufacturer after 62-year-old roofing laborer's fatal fall
How Crucible Prevents This
The gap between the working platform and the roof surface — a classic fall-through hazard in modular and manufactured home construction — is exactly the type of specific, localized hazard that a pre-work job hazard analysis gate would catch. A Crucible pre-task documentation requirement for roofing work gaps, platform positioning, and fall protection equipment assignment before any worker accesses a roof would have surfaced this unprotected gap.
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