Incident date: 2016-03-01
NAICS industry code: 112112

An employee was walking across the roof of a barn carrying a piece of guttering when he stepped backwards onto a skylight. He fell through the skylight into the barn from a height of about 15 feet and landed on metal cattle pens and the concrete floor. The employee suffered broken ribs, a liver laceration, a fractured eye-socket bone, and an arm laceration.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Skylights
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate