Incident date: 2017-08-21
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee was measuring the corner of a roof. When he adjusted his lanyard to get to the other side of the roof, he tripped and fell 21 feet to the ground. He broke his L1 vertebra and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 21 to 25 feet
code_source: title: Roofs, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate