Incident date: 2023-09-15
NAICS industry code: 515210

An employee was installing cable services on the roof of a customer's pool house. He stepped onto a plastic panel that was being used as a skylight. The plastic panel broke, causing him to fall approximately 20 feet to a concrete surface. The employee sustained fractures to the right wrist, left hand, pelvis, hip, and ribs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Skylights
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate