Incident date: 2015-08-21
NAICS industry code: 238130

An employee was working from a roof approximately three stories high when he fell about 15 feet. He was wearing his harness at the time. During the fall, his right arm was struck and lacerated by a radial arm saw that fell with him. He sustained deep cuts in his tendons and loss of feeling in his fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Roofs, unspecified
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate