Incident date: 2015-10-21
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee was nailing shingles at the edge of the roof of a new one story house when he lost his footing, fell 8 feet to the ground, and landed on a pile of wood. The employee was not wearing fall protective equipment. He was hospitalized with six broken ribs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Roof edges
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate