Incident date: 2017-04-20
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was walking from his office to his personal vehicle in the parking lot. As he descended some wooden steps, he slipped and fell down 3 to 4 stairs to the asphalt parking lot, tearing the quadricep tendons in both of his knees. He was hospitalized and had surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Stairs, steps-outdoors
code_nature: title: Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
code_body: title: Knee(s)
severity: moderate