Incident date: 2025-07-23
NAICS industry code: 238130

Employees were performing tear-off on a commercial roof. The injured employee was cleaning debris off the partially repaired roof when he fell through the roof to the concrete floor 15-16 feet below. He landed on his lower back, resulting in several fractures to his lumbar vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Roof surface
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back  lumbar region
severity: moderate