Incident date: 2024-10-30
NAICS industry code: 236115

Three employees were constructing a deck (digging holes to install permanent roof shoring) when the roof over the porch collapsed on them. The roof (9 feet by 25 feet) had been supported by temporary 2x4 shoring. One employee was hospitalized with a hairline fracture of one vertebra, a facture to the lower back, and two broken ribs. The other two employees were injured but not hospitalized. The second employee sustained cuts to their head and shoulder. The third employee sustained cuts and bruises to their head, back, arms, and legs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Collapse, engulfment  building or structure
code_source: title: Roof surface
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate