Incident date: 2016-12-02
NAICS industry code: 922140

On December 2, 2016, at approximately 7:30 a.m., an employee was walking down a stairwell to the basement when he missed the first step and fell down approximately 12 stairs. He was hospitalized with a head laceration and a fractured left wrist. At the time of the incident, the backup generator was being tested and a delay in the emergency lighting caused the stairwell to be poorly lit.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Stairs, steps-indoors
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Wrist(s)
severity: moderate