Incident date: 2021-09-10
NAICS industry code: 236116

An employee was laying plywood on a roof. After moving to pick up a bunk of plywood, he fell 12 feet from the roof to the ground, suffering a broken arm and a broken back. The employee was wearing fall protection but it was not connected to an anchoring point at the time of the fall.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Roofs, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate