Incident date: 2022-12-28
NAICS industry code: 238110

An employee was cleaning construction debris from a roof. He stepped on an unmarked piece of plywood that was covering a 2-foot-by-2-foot hole in the roof, fell through, and landed on the concrete floor about 14 feet below. He suffered a broken wrist and broken ribs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Existing roof openings, other than skylights
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate