Incident date: 2021-08-11
NAICS industry code: 238160

Employees were installing a metal roof when a sudden rainstorm caused three employees to slide down the roof. Two of them fell through the guardrail system, landing on the ground 18 feet below. One of them suffered a spinal cord bruise and the second employee suffered bruised ribs and a neck injury. Both were hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Roofs, unspecified
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries to spinal cord, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: low