Incident date: 2019-09-03
NAICS industry code: 238160

Employees were conducting roofing work on a flat roof. Debris was being placed into a dumpster via a chute. An employee entered the dumpster to even out the pile of debris. The employee fell out of the dumpster and landed on the concrete pavement. The employee was hospitalized with a broken vertebra and abrasions to the head, hands and back.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate