Incident date: 2023-08-21
NAICS industry code: 722513

An employee was standing on a box to inspect a walk-in cooler fan. As she went to step down from the box, she fell to the floor and sustained a wedge deformity of the T12 vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Boxes, crates, cartons
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries to bones, nerves, spinal cord, unspecified
code_body: title: Thoracic region
severity: moderate