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Accident Summary Nr: 170158968 - Employee injures ankle descending stairs with furniture

Accident Summary Nr: 170158968 -- Report ID: 0950641 -- Event Date: 12/03/1991
Inspection NrDate OpenedSICNAICSEstablishment Name
11211251112/12/199142120Tim Holguin

Abstract: At about 11:20 a.m. on December 3, 1991, Employee #1, a furniture mover, was the bottom man of a two-man team carrying a heavy piece of furniture down an outdoor flight of stairs. Employee #1 was walking backward. At the bottom of the stairs, he stepped on a piece of cardboard masking a hole or irregularity of the ground and twisted his foot. Employee #1 sustained a fracture of the right ankle, bruises, and damage to tendons and ligaments, and was hospitalized.

Keywords: FRACTURE, STAIR, TENDON, DESCENDING, WALKING SURFACE, WALKING BACKWARD, ANKLE, CONTUSION

Employee Details
Employee # Inspection Nr Age Sex Degree of Injury Nature of Injury Occupation
1 112112511 Hospitalized injury Fracture Freight, stock and material handlers, n.e.c.

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