---
title: "Incident"
description: "what was seen, the reading that found it, what was done, what changed, and the check added"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/incident
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# Incident

what was seen, the reading that found it, what was done, what changed, and the check added

[figure: Incident is a work at platform scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | work |
| scope | platform |
| key | its id |
| store | postgres |
| family | operations |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `seen` | `text` | yes |  |
| `found_by` | `text` | yes |  |
| `done` | `text` | no |  |
| `changed` | `text` | no |  |
| `check_added` | [Law](/concepts/law) | no |  |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns Incident directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.