Incident date: 2023-10-23
NAICS industry code: 236118

On October 23, 2023, an employee was installing a metal roofing panel using an impact drill when they slipped, causing them to fall over the rake edge of the 4/12 sloped residential roof. The employee sustained an arterial laceration to the left wrist/forearm that required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Roof edges
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Wrist(s) and arm(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate