Incident date: 2024-03-01
NAICS industry code: 331524

An employee had just used a cart to move a computer desk to a dumpster and was moving the desk off the cart to the ground. A drawer slid out of the desk onto the ground. The employee jumped onto the drawer to demolish it; when his feet contacted the drawer, it slid away, causing him to lose balance and fall to the ground. He suffered two broken bones in the lower right leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Other constructed surface
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate