Incident date: 2015-12-21
NAICS industry code: 221114

An employee was the last person on the roof after installing solar panels and wiring and had removed his fall protection equipment handing it to a coworker.  The coworker went down the ladder to the ground and held the ladder.  When the injured employee went to descend the ladder, he slid and a strap securing the ladder to the roof broke. He fell over 20 feet from the roof to a concrete surface below resulting in compound fractures to his left arm.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Roofs, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate