| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-08-15 | Birmingham | Alabama | R.H. Service LLC | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was installing roof shingles when he fell to the ground, injuring his spine. | |||||
| 2016-09-20 | Omaha | Nebraska | American Family Mutual Insurance Company | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was climbing onto a roof from the ladder. His foot slipped on the granules from the roof shingles and he fell 10 feet. The employee was hospitalized for a fractured L4 vertebrae and a torn ACL. | |||||
| 2016-07-26 | Idaho Falls | Idaho | Franklin Building Supply, Inc | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall through surface or existing opening 16 to 20 feet |
| An employee was delivering a pallet of roof shingles to a low-sloped roof using a boom truck with a fork attachment. The pallet of roof shingles slipped off of the forks and crashed through the roof to the interior of the home. The employee was knocked/dragged into the hole along with the pallet. He fell approximately 20 feet to the lower surface and was hospitalized with two broken ribs. | |||||
| 2015-04-10 | Orlando | Florida | Andrew Peet Inc | Hand(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was installing roof shingles with a nail gun when he tripped over a lanyard and fell onto his hand. The nail gun in the opposite hand landed on his hand, and a nail entered his hand and struck his bone. | |||||
| 2015-02-28 | Grand Junction | Colorado | Saenz Roofing, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| An employee performing roofing work fell approximately 12 feet. He was laying down substrate at the time of the accident in preparation for the placement of roof shingles. | |||||