Incident date: 2015-05-20
NAICS industry code: 336611

An employee was preparing paint in the stern thruster room of a vessel tied up to the pier. He had to kneel and crawl on steel surfaces. He wore knee pads, but not all of the time. His left knee became sore, and he was diagnosed with bursitis with a possible infection.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Kneeling, kneeling down-repetitive or prolonged
code_source: title: Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
code_nature: title: Bursitis
code_body: title: Knee(s)
severity: moderate