Incident date: 2016-02-29
NAICS industry code: 445110

The employee was standing on a desk to measure the plastic cover on an overhead fluorescent light fixture. He stepped on the corner of the desk and the leg of the desk penetrated the 5/8" plywood flooring. The employee fell three feet and fractured the right leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Desks
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate