Incident date: 2018-12-18
NAICS industry code: 238160

While securing the access ladder to the roof, an employee slipped on roofing paper and fell 8 feet. The employee was hospitalized with fractured vertebrae. At the time of the incident, the employee was wearing a harness but was not connected to an anchoring point.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Roofs, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate