Incident date: 2015-01-05
NAICS industry code: 221122

An employee walking from the parking lot en route to his assigned work area slipped, tearing his quadriceps tendon. The employee was discharged from the ER, but later returned to Lake West hospital that evening and was admitted. The employee has since been scheduled for surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Slip without fall, unspecified
code_source: title: Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
code_nature: title: Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
code_body: title: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate