Incident date: 2025-08-20
NAICS industry code: 624410

During a home visit, an employee was coming down a flight of carpeted stairs carrying two bags. One of the bags (a heavy one) caught on a child's car seat at the bottom of the stairs, and the employee tripped and fell down about four stairs. She suffered a broken left knee.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Stairs, steps
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Knee(s)
severity: moderate