Incident date: 2019-01-14
NAICS industry code: 238290

An employee ascended a flight of seven metal stairs to check supplies. He was going back downstairs with  and was making a turn on the landing when his boot became caught in the galvanized serrated metal grating, causing him to slip and fall to the metal steps, injuring his neck and back. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Stairs, steps-indoors
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Neck and back
severity: moderate