Incident date: 2018-04-24
NAICS industry code: 713990

An employee was walking on the roof to bring tape to his co-worker who was repairing a skylight when he stepped onto the old skylight with plexiglass in place and fell about 15 feet through it to the floor. He sustained three cracked vertebrae, a cracked rib, and a bruised hip, requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Skylights
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, unspecified
severity: moderate