Incident date: 2020-10-06
NAICS industry code: 238160

The injured employee was working on the roof of a private residence installing membrane around a chimney. He was untangling his safety line from a co-worker's safety line when he fell approximately 9 feet to the ground below. The injured employee sustained a punctured lung and a brain bleed.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Roofs, unspecified
code_nature: title: Intracranial injuries and injuries to internal organs
code_body: title: Head and trunk
severity: moderate