Incident date: 2017-07-25
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was stretching out a garden hose for a pressure washer on a roof when he backed up and fell over the parapet wall approximately 9 feet to the roof below and fractured four ribs. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Roof edges
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate