Incident date: 2024-09-26
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee was performing roofing work such as installing shingles. He fell from the second-story section of a town home and landed on the ground sustaining a compression fracture in his back. The employee was wearing fall protection at the time of the fall.

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