Incident date: 2019-04-23
NAICS industry code: 561790

An employee was on a house's second-story roof, cleaning the siding using pressure washing equipment. He stepped backwards and fell from the roof to the ground and landed on his back. He suffered blunt force trauma to his chest. Fall protection was not being worn at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other jump to lower level 21 to 25 feet
code_source: title: Roofs, unspecified
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate