Incident date: 2025-04-15
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee was performing roofing activities on a commercial roof. As the employee walked to the ladder to exit the roof for lunch, they stepped on a piece of insulation that hung over the roof and fell approximately 17 feet to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a wedge compression fracture to the L2 and T12 vertebrae and traumatic rupture of a lumbar intervertebral disc.

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: Back  multiple regions
severity: moderate