Incident date: 2025-06-02
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee was removing an existing flat roof and throwing debris into the trash dumpster from the edge of the roof. The employee slipped and fell approximately 15 feet into the dumpster, landing on debris. The employee was hospitalized with a laceration to the head and two fractured vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Roof surface
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
severity: moderate