Incident date: 2018-11-16
NAICS industry code: 238990

An employee was installing girt on the metal roof (30 degrees) of a newly built greenhouse from a scissor lift. He got off the scissor lift to nail down the top of the girt, then fell 26 feet through the roof to the ground, breaking his left leg and injuring his neck. He was hospitalized. Fall protection was not being worn at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 26 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Roofs, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate