Incident date: 2019-02-02
NAICS industry code: 623220

An employee was carrying laundry down to the basement when the stair railing gave way and she fell down 12 steps. She was hospitalized with a subdural hematoma, fractured left thumb, contused forehead, compression fracture to the C7 vertebra, fractured right humerus, abrasion to the buttock, and contused right thigh.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Stairs, steps-indoors
code_nature: title: Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate