Incident date: 2020-07-17
NAICS industry code: 236118

An employee was laying sheathing onto a flat roof. A sheet of OSB slipped out and he fell through the roof trusses to the ground 17 feet below. He suffered a broken right ankle, two damaged vertebrae, and soft tissue injures and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Roof surfaces other than roof edge
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate