Incident date: 2015-05-14
NAICS industry code: 424470

An employee was carrying a 12-lb box up the stairs when the box began to slip out of his hand.  He tried to catch it and missed a step. He lost his balance and fell down eight stairs, landing on his left leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Stairs, steps, unspecified
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate