Incident date: 2018-11-07
NAICS industry code: 238160

The injured employee was using a chalk line to mark the location of conduit under the roof membrane. The employee slipped on standing water/ice that was near the flag line and fell towards the warning line system. As the employee tried to catch himself, he fell approximately 17 feet off the roof to the ground below. The employee suffered a left hip fracture and lower lumbar fractures (L3 and L4 vertebrae).

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Roof surfaces other than roof edge
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate