Incident date: 2023-08-01
NAICS industry code: 562910

On August 1, 2023, an employee was walking across a roof to get safety equipment when they slipped and fell through a skylight. The employee fell approximately five and a half feet onto a metal catwalk and then approximately 10 feet to the floor below, resulting in a shoulder injury and a laceration to the head. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Skylights
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e)
severity: moderate