Incident date: 2016-11-30
NAICS industry code: 811213

An employee was at a customer's house, walking up to the front door when the wooden stairs broke. The employee's foot went through the broken stairs to the ground and he felt a pinch in his lower back. The employee tried to get up and walk, but he could not and fell to the ground. The employee was hospitalized overnight for a lower back injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall from collapsing structure or equipment less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Stairs, steps-outdoors
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate