Incident date: 2017-07-06
NAICS industry code: 238170

An employee was removing gutters. The employee stepped off a ladder onto the roof to remove a screw from the gutter, disturbed a wasp nest, and was stung repeatedly causing the employee to fall 15 feet from the roof edge. The employee was hospitalized for a laceration on the forehead.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Roof edges
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Forehead
severity: moderate