Incident date: 2015-08-31
NAICS industry code: 236220

Four employees were injured while attempting to set trusses on a barn. The trusses collapsed and the employees fell. Two of the employees were hospitalized. The first suffered a chipped shoulder bone and lacerations to his head. The second suffered compression fractures to three vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall from collapsing structure or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Roof trusses, joists
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e)
severity: low