Incident date: 2015-09-30
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee wearing a harness and lanyard was accessing the third-story roof. He stepped from the ladder to go to his tie-off anchor point, but slipped in the process. He fell approximately 30 feet to the second story and then to the ground and was hospitalized with a compressed disc.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 26 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Roofs, unspecified
code_nature: title: Herniated discs
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate