Incident date: 2016-09-22
NAICS industry code: 238310

An employee on stilts slipped on plastic while installing insulation in a building and fell, tearing a knee tendon and requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Tools, instruments, and equipment, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
code_body: title: Knee(s)
severity: moderate