Incident date: 2020-06-30
NAICS industry code: 238160

On June 30, 2020, an employee was installing sheathing on a low slope roof of a residential structure. The employee fell about 4 feet onto a self-supported scaffold system below the work area; a vertical scaffold post struck the employee's right armpit, causing a laceration/avulsion and severe bleeding to the armpit.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Roofs, unspecified
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e)
severity: moderate