Incident date: 2018-08-20
NAICS industry code: 238160

At approximately 3:45 p.m., on 8/20/18, an employee was changing roof anchors when he fell approximately 10 feet from the roof to the ground, spraining his ankle and fracturing his spine. He was hospitalized. The employee's fall protection was disengaged at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Roofs, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate