Incident date: 2018-06-12
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was installing a metal roof on a building, lost footing, and fell to the deck. The employee slid approximately 16 ft on 4/12 pitch roof. The employee then fell off the roof edge 13 feet to ground. The employee sustained a fractured L2 vertebra and a fractured wrist.

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