Incident date: 2020-10-22
NAICS industry code: 448190

The employee was bending down in the stock room in order to pick up a piece of a metal clothing rack. She twisted and her leg gave out causing her to fall to the ground and break her tibia at the knee. The employee was hospitalized for surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Bending, crawling, reaching, twisting-single episode
code_source: title: Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate