Incident date: 2018-10-17
NAICS industry code: 238990

An employee was putting a piece of decking on the 8-foot roof of a new construction residential home when he fell off the roof and hit the dirt below. He suffered a broken wrist and fracture below his eye, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Roofs, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate