Incident date: 2020-05-12
NAICS industry code: 238130

The injured employee was setting a truss about 10 feet high on a residential building. He was working with two other employees. The truss was not going into the right position and when one of the employees pushed it, the injured employee, who was grabbing the truss, lost his balance and fell to the floor, fracturing his hip. The employee required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hip(s)
severity: moderate