Incident date: 2015-11-03
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was installing metal roofing for a new pole building. As he was coming down the roof for a break, he fell through a seam in the roof approximately 12 ft. to the ground below. The employee suffered a head injury, a broken left wrist, stitches above the left eye and right elbow and a bruised tailbone.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Roof surfaces other than roof edge
code_nature: title: Intracranial injuries, unspecified
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate