Incident date: 2024-12-19
NAICS industry code: 541380

An employee was in a patient room and reached for a stool to sit on, but first grabbed a guest chair (recliner) that moved. The employee fell to the floor and was hospitalized with three fractures to their femur.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall while sitting
code_source: title: Chairs, single-person seating
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate