Incident date: 2024-08-07
NAICS industry code: 623311

An employee was pushing a plastic cart to put away clean dishes when they tripped over the bottom of a 3-foot tall industrial fan and fell to the floor on their backside. The fall may have exacerbated a prior back injury, and the employee was hospitalized due to burning and tingling in their legs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level due to slip or trip
code_source: title: Other constructed surface
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries or exposures  unspecified
code_body: title: Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
severity: moderate