Incident date: 2023-04-14
NAICS industry code: 238320

An employee was touching up paint along the gable and main floor roofline at a home. When the employee finished painting, he set up a 16-foot extension ladder to reach the upper roofline in order to detach his lifeline. As he stepped off the ladder at the upper roofline, the ladder slipped out from beneath him, causing the employee to fall approximately 15 feet to the driveway below. He sustained a hairline fracture to his left shoulder, a fractured left cheekbone, and a laceration to the back of his head and below his left eye. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Roof edges
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate