Incident date: 2023-09-29
NAICS industry code: 236115

An employee was attaching a truss. He climbed onto a 2x6 girt nailed to columns approximately 3 feet off the ground. As he swung his leg over the second girt, the employee lost his footing and fell to the sand/gravel-covered ground below. The employee sustained a right leg fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Trusses, girders, beams-structurally attached, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate