Incident date: 2023-01-23
NAICS industry code: 452319

At 6:30 p.m., an employee was placing expired and damaged cartons of milk onto a rolling container from a backroom cooler. The employee was pushing the container out to a truck when it began to lean sideways. As the employee attempted to catch the container and push it back up, her legs slipped and she fell, resulting in a torn ligament in her right leg that required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level due to slipping
code_source: title: Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
code_nature: title: Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate