Jurors in a coroner’s inquest on Monday heard a New Brunswick carpenter wasn’t wearing a hard hat and was following a now-frowned upon method for installing trusses when he fell and hit his head.

Daniel Moore, 59, was installing trusses on a house in Jewetts Mills, about 25 kilometres west of Fredericton, on July 5, 2021, when he fell about nine feet, or about three metres, hitting his head and suffering a traumatic brain injury he died from five days later.

Michel Cyr, manager of investigations for WorkSafeNB, was the first witness to testify in the coroner’s inquest into the Hoyt man’s death, which is being held at Marysville Place in Fredericton.

Cyr said Moore was working on the top of one of the home’s exterior walls, helping install the trusses for the roof.

Part of that work involved walking across the bottom trusses as they were being laid, and bracing them to the previously laid truss using a four-by-one-inch piece of wood.

While installing the last truss, Cyr said, Moore knelt down on one of the wooden pieces of bracing, when it broke.

Cyr said although Moore landed on his feet, he fell back and hit his head on the concrete floor.

Cyr said Moore should have been wearing a hard hat but wasn’t.

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