Incident date: 2015-09-28
NAICS industry code: 238130

An employee was working on a pitched roof, clearing off materials, when he fell approximately 20 feet to the ground below. He was wearing fall protection at the time, but the shock pack did not deploy, and all of the fall protection fell with him. He fractured his lower back.

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: Lumbar region
severity: moderate