Incident date: 2015-01-25
NAICS industry code: 445120

An employee was bringing a newspaper rack out of a storage shed when she slipped on ice/snow that was on the shed's ramp, resulting in her falling to the ground and striking a nearby safety bollard with her leg.  She sustained a fractured tibia and fibula and underwent surgery later that afternoon and was admitted to the hospital.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level due to slipping
code_source: title: Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate