Incident date: 2024-11-25
NAICS industry code: 621492

An employee hooked up a patient to a blood pressure machine and an oxygen machine and then walked away. When she turned around, she tripped over the cords and fell to the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured right hip and a bruised right leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level due to slip or trip
code_source: title: Other constructed surface
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hip joint(s)
severity: moderate