Incident date: 2019-12-11
NAICS industry code: 524114

An employee was walking down a flight of stairs carrying packages from the mailroom when the employee missed the last step and fell to the hard stairwell surface. The employee was hospitalized with a ruptured quadriceps tendon.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Stairs, steps-indoors
code_nature: title: Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
code_body: title: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate