Incident date: 2025-06-27
NAICS industry code: 221122

An employee was leaving a customer location. While descending stairs, their shoe slid on edge of the top stair causing them to fall and land on their right leg a couple of stairs below. The employee sustained a ruptured patella tendon requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  unspecified
code_source: title: Stairs, steps
code_nature: title: Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
code_body: title: Knee(s)
severity: moderate