Incident date: 2023-05-16
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was unloading tools. As they stepped off a lift gate of a box truck to the trailer, their left knee buckled, causing the right knee to buckle as well. The employee sustained a right knee fracture and a ruptured quadriceps tendon on the left and right leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Boarding, alighting-excluding slip, trip, fall-single episode
code_source: title: Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Knee(s) and leg(s)
severity: moderate