Incident date: 2025-05-02
NAICS industry code: 624110

An employee was transferring a resident from a seat to their wheelchair when the back of her sneaker caught on a lip of the floor threshold. The employee fell backward to the ground and the resident fell on top of her. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left leg and required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level due to slip or trip
code_source: title: Constructed surface irregularity
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate