Incident date: 2023-01-17
NAICS industry code: 622110

An employee was preparing to help a patient on a stretcher get from a helicopter to an emergency room. The employee walked up a ramp to a helipad when he slipped and fell backward, landing on his back and striking his head on the helipad. He then tumbled off the helipad and contacted the safety fence surrounding the helipad. The employee suffered a compression fracture of his L2 vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level due to slipping
code_source: title: Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate