Incident date: 2024-07-30
NAICS industry code: 221114

While working on a roof, an employee switched from one anchor to another, leaned back, and the standing seam anchor was ripped from the seam. The employee fell 20 feet from the roof to a gravel driveway and sustained a broken back.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Roof surface
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
severity: moderate