Incident date: 2025-07-21
NAICS industry code: 238160

On July 21, 2025, an employee was working on a roof when they fell 9 feet onto a metal roof below, resulting in hospitalization for a lacerated tendon in their leg and three fractured lumbar vertebrae. The employee was wearing fall protection but was not secured to an anchor point at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Roof surface
code_nature: title: Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
code_body: title: Trunk and other lower extremities
severity: moderate