Incident date: 2020-09-10
NAICS industry code: 541110

An employee was returning to her work area within the office using crutches. Her crutch slipped on a tiled portion of the floor. The employee caught herself from falling with the leg that had the pre-existing injury. She was hospitalized for muscle trauma to the upper right leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Slip without fall, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries to muscles, tendons, ligaments, joints, etc., unspecified
code_body: title: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate