Incident date: 2022-08-24
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee was on a roof, securing an anchor for his fall arrest system. When he stepped on a 6-inch-wide roof panel near the roof ridge, it did not hold his weight. He fell to the ground 36 feet below and suffered a broken right wrist, as well as injury to the left wrist.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet
code_source: title: Roofs, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Wrist(s)
severity: moderate