Incident date: 2019-04-02
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee was helping a sheet metal foreman measure a small sheet metal roof over the dock. The employee walked onto the sheet metal roof and fell through a flush skylight on the canopy.  He fell 16 feet, landed on some 55-gallon drums, bounced, and ended up on the dock concrete flooring. He was hospitalized with broken ribs, broken vertebrae, a punctured lung, an injury to the other lung, and a damaged spleen.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Skylights
code_nature: title: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate