Incident date: 2018-05-18
NAICS industry code: 238220

On May 18, 2018, an employee was performing rooftop work with a coworker when the coworker left the roof to get a drill from a vehicle. The employee walked to the neighboring building's metal roof, stepped on a fiberglass skylight, and fell through to the concrete below. The employee was hospitalized with a shattered left elbow and fractured left arm.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening, unspecified
code_source: title: Skylights
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Elbow(s) and arms(s)
severity: moderate