Incident date: 2025-07-23
NAICS industry code: 339999

An employee was walking up a set of three steps that lead out of a pit. Water that had leaked from a valve was on his boots and he slipped and fell backward to the floor. The employee sustained an injury to his L5 vertebra and a ruptured hamstring that required surgery.

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