Incident date: 2021-10-26
NAICS industry code: 238160

On October 26, 2021, at approximately 10:25 a.m. an employee was performing roofing work on a commercial building and was walking backward moving a propane tank with a handcart. While moving the propane tank, the employee tripped over the raised lip of an unprotected skylight and fell through it to the concrete floor 20 feet below. The employee sustained a fractured cervical vertebra and multiple skull fractures.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Skylights
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Head and neck
severity: moderate