Incident date: 2025-04-30
NAICS industry code: 238210

On April 30, 2025, an employee was installing solar panels on the roof of a residential home. His fall protection anchor failed, and he fell from the roof to the ground. The employee sustained fractures to their C6 and C7 vertebrae, collapsed lungs, a heart injury, and he was paralyzed from the chest down.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  unspecified
code_source: title: Roof surface
code_nature: title: Paralysis, paraplegia, quadriplegia
code_body: title: Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the neck
severity: moderate