Incident date: 2020-09-29
NAICS industry code: 238160

On September 29, 2020, an employee was working on a warehouse roof. As he looked for an anchorage point, he fell through a skylight to the floor 12 feet below. He suffered a skull fracture and a spleen injury; he was hospitalized and his spleen had to be removed. Fall protection was being worn, but was not anchored at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Skylights
code_nature: title: Fractures (except rib, trunk fractures) and internal injuries
code_body: title: Head and trunk
severity: moderate