Incident date: 2019-12-24
NAICS industry code: 221210

An employee was helping a second employee carry a gas meter down the exterior stairs at a customer's premises. The employee was walking backward in the lead, while the second employee walked forward in the rear. The gas meter weighed approximately 70 pounds. About halfway down the stairs, the employee walking backward lost his footing and fell down the stairs, breaking his left leg. He was hospitalized and had surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Stairs, steps, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate