Incident date: 2015-10-21
NAICS industry code: 238160

On 10/21/2015, a roofing employee was performing a roofing tear off of dead wood. During the replacement of dead wood the worker ran out of replacement wood. The worker covered an opening in the roof with felt paper. The employee lost his balance and jumped from the roof of a single story mobile home instead of falling through the felt covering. Both heels were injured.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other jump to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Roofs, unspecified
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Heel(s)
severity: moderate