Incident date: 2024-11-01
NAICS industry code: 332722

An employee was sitting and bent over to pick up a rag on the floor. The office chair tipped over and the employee fell with it to the ground, striking his back on the edge of a machine. The employee sustained a fractured rib and three displaced discs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall while sitting
code_source: title: Chairs, single-person seating
code_nature: title: Fractures and soft tissue injuries
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate