Incident date: 2024-03-12
NAICS industry code: 236115

Employees were laying sheathing on the flat roof of an apartment that was being framed when the injured employee fell into a small utility shaft approximately three stories to a temporary platform across the shaft, resulting in cuts, bruises, abrasions, and internal bleeding. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall to lower level resulting in exposure or contact  more than 30 feet
code_source: title: Roof surface
code_nature: title: Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels
code_body: title: Part of body  unspecified
severity: moderate