Incident date: 2020-10-06
NAICS industry code: 423930

An employee stepped out of his truck at a public landfill, heard his knee pop, and fell. The employee sustained a separated left kneecap, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Boarding, alighting-excluding slip, trip, fall-single episode
code_source: title: Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
code_nature: title: Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
code_body: title: Knee(s)
severity: moderate