Incident date: 2024-08-08
NAICS industry code: 926130

An employee was manually reading the electric meters at an abandoned home. He was walking back to his vehicle through overgrown vegetation and household debris when he stepped in a hole, twisted his left knee, and fell to the ground. As he got up and tried to walk, his right knee twisted as well and he fell a second time. The employee sustained a torn left quadricep tendon and a torn right patellar tendon requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level due to slip or trip
code_source: title: Ground
code_nature: title: Sprains, strains, minor tears
code_body: title: Knee(s)
severity: moderate