Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221408834

SONSHINE ROOFING INC.

Event
Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Fracture, Residential Construction, Roof, Roofer, Wrist
NAICS
423330
Inspection type
Referral
Activity number
#345622831
Employer profile
SONSHINE ROOFING INC.
Summary number
221408834
Report ID
0420600
Project type
C
Construction end-use
B

Event description

Employee fractures both wrists in fall from roof

Investigation abstract

At 10:00 a.m. on October 29, 2021, an employee was repairing a roof leak on a residential flat roof. The employee slipped and fell approximately 8 feet off the roof at the back of the house. The employee fractured both wrists, resulting in hospitalization.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 28 M

    Event type
    5
    Occupation code
    595
    Fall distance
    8

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