Incident date: 2019-08-22
NAICS industry code: 424330

An employee was on a compactor platform throwing cardboard into the trash compactor when she fell 1 foot off the ledge of the platform to the ground, breaking her tibia.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Trash compactors
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate