Incident date: 2018-10-22
NAICS industry code: 624310

An employee was cleaning gutters on a residential home. He was working from a ladder and climbed onto the roof to reach a section that was beyond the reach of the ladder when he slipped and fell 20 feet from the roof to the concrete below. He suffered a head laceration, requiring hospitalization and staples.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Roofs, unspecified
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Head, unspecified
severity: moderate