Incident date: 2019-04-23
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee was installing roofing material about 7 or 8 feet from the edge of the flat roof of a one-story residential house. He stepped on an insulation board and lost his balance, falling 8 feet to the concrete patio below and fracturing his left elbow. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Roofs, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Elbow(s)
severity: moderate