Incident date: 2023-08-25
NAICS industry code: 923140

An employee was pushing a cart when they stopped to assist someone. As they turned around, they fell backward down the stairs with a box and hand truck landing on top of him. The employee was hospitalized and sustained rib fractures, a hematoma, and a compression fracture/spinal injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Stairs, steps, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, unspecified
severity: moderate