Incident date: 2023-01-06
NAICS industry code: 238160

On 1/06/2023, an employee was on the fourth floor flat roof of an apartment building construction worksite. The employee was cleaning up nails and trash and putting them in a trash bag. The employee fell through a hole on the fourth floor and landed on the concrete floor of the first floor. The employee sustained a broken right ankle and required back surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening more than 30 feet
code_source: title: Existing roof openings, other than skylights
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate