Incident date: 2022-03-19
NAICS industry code: 622110

On March 19, 2022, an employee was working a 12-hour shift at an emergency room when, after 8 hours, she began to experience spasms in her right leg, down the thigh and to knee, and shortly after reported feeling her knee pop. The employee finished her shift. The next morning, the employee's knee was swollen and could not bend or bear weight. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Multiple types of exertions and bodily reactions
code_source: title: Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
code_nature: title: Swelling, inflammation, irritation-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Knee(s)
severity: moderate