Incident date: 2022-07-15
NAICS industry code: 236116

Two employees were on top of a 7-foot-1-inch stack of roof trusses. As they moved a truss toward the ground, one side of it slipped, causing one of the employees to fall to the ground. He suffered a fractured T12 vertebra and was paralyzed from the waist down. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Containers-variable restraint, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Paralysis, paraplegia, quadriplegia
code_body: title: Thoracic region
severity: moderate