Incident date: 2024-02-09
NAICS industry code: 813110

Employees were conducting roof repairs on a facility. They had procured a 40-foot articulating boom lift and fall protection to conduct the work.  Employee 1's harness was not connected to the anchor point and he fell approximately 8 feet to a concrete slab below. He was hospitalized with fractured vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Source, secondary source  unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
severity: moderate