Incident date: 2023-09-18
NAICS industry code: 332999

An employee was on their knees pulling wires in a machining center when their knee began to swell with fluid, resulting in hospitalization due to sepsis.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Kneeling, kneeling down-single episode
code_source: title: Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
code_nature: title: Swelling, inflammation, irritation-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Knee(s)
severity: moderate