Incident date: 2015-12-31
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee had just finished installing the last of the drip edge flashing on the roof of a two-story 6:12 pitched new house. He unhooked his lanyard from the anchor point in order to go down the ladder. He slipped and fell 20 feet onto the sand resulting in a lower back injury and broken ribs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Roofs, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate