Incident date: 2024-03-05
NAICS industry code: 924120

On March 5, 2024, at 1:15 p.m., an employee was walking up a paved road when she began to fall on ice and snow. She was wearing crampons for slip prevention at the time, but they grabbed the ground at an odd angle as she started to fall. The employee heard a popping noise and she fell, suffering a spiral fracture of the right tibia bone and a hairline fracture of the fibula. The tibia bone required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level due to slip or trip
code_source: title: Ramps, inclines
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate