Incident date: 2022-09-21
NAICS industry code: 561730

On September 21, 2022, an employee got off an aerial lift and onto the roof of a two-story house to blow off leaves using gas-powered leaf blower. The employee slipped, grabbed onto the gutter, and then fell approximately 28-30 feet onto a flower bed, resulting in a fractured sacrum and a laceration to his chin. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 26 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Roofs, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Sacral region
severity: moderate