Incident date: 2020-01-17
NAICS industry code: 238160

On 1/17/2020, an employee was re-roofing a second-story tile roof when he fell onto the first-story roof and then rolled off onto the ground. He was hospitalized with crushed vertebrae in the lower back, requiring surgery.

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: Lumbar region
severity: moderate