Incident date: 2018-08-27
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee climbed onto the fourth story roof of a multi-family structure to begin installing flashing around chimneys. As he stepped to connect his lanyard to a lifeline, he slipped on synthetic felt covering the roof and fell approximately 30 feet onto a porch overhang, before falling  about 10 more feet onto a concrete driveway. He was hospitalized with a fractured upper front right rib, a laceration to the back of the head, a concussion, and abrasions to the face.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet
code_source: title: Roofs, unspecified
code_nature: title: Concussions
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate