Incident date: 2023-11-06
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee was tearing the rubber membrane off a roof. A piece of the rubber membrane got stuck. The employee was pulling on the stuck piece when it let loose, causing them to stumble backward and fall roughly 11 feet to the ground below. The employee sustained multiple fractures to their left tibia.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Roofs, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate