Incident date: 2016-07-26
NAICS industry code: 444110

An employee was delivering a pallet of roof shingles to a low-sloped roof using a boom truck with a fork attachment. The pallet of roof shingles slipped off of the forks and crashed through the roof to the interior of the home. The employee was knocked/dragged into the hole along with the pallet. He fell approximately 20 feet to the lower surface and was hospitalized with two broken ribs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Roof surfaces other than roof edge
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate