Incident date: 2024-07-23
NAICS industry code: 441120

An employee was adjusting his knee brace while standing at the top of a flight of stairs. He lost his balance and fell down the stairs, striking his head and hand on the concrete floor. The employee sustained abrasions, a swollen eye, a broken finger, and lacerations to the head that required stitches above an eye.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  unspecified
code_source: title: Stairs, steps
code_nature: title: Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
code_body: title: Head and extremities
severity: moderate