Incident date: 2018-02-20
NAICS industry code: 561720

An employee was washing building windows when the clamp supporting him slipped off the parapet wall. He then fell approximately 36 to 42 feet, striking a tree and then landing on the grass lawn below. He broke his right arm, six right-side ribs, and one vertebra, requiring hospitalization and surgery. The clamp was not tied back to an independent life line at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate