Incident date: 2021-06-13
NAICS industry code: 621610

An employee was carrying a storage bin of clothing down a flight of stairs when he tripped over a shoe that had fallen onto the stairs. The employee fell down the stairs and suffered a ruptured patella tendon in the left knee and a right wrist sprain.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Stairs, steps-indoors
code_nature: title: Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
code_body: title: Knee(s)
severity: moderate