Incident date: 2015-07-07
NAICS industry code: 238130

An employee had been framing the roof deck and was tied off using a personal fall arrest system.  A violent  thunderstorm occurred, and the employee began to exit the roof.  He unhooked his lanyard when he got within 2 feet of the extension ladder used to access and exit the roof. He slipped and fell 12 feet to the concrete floor below and sustained a head injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Roofs, unspecified
code_nature: title: Intracranial injuries, unspecified
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate