Incident date: 2025-04-08
NAICS industry code: 622110

A kitchen employee was completing food preparation for lunch. She experienced increasing pain in her neck as she bent down to fill a bucket of ice, brought it over to the cold station, and lifted the bucket of ice to fill the cold station. The employee was hospitalized the following day with a bulging cervical disc.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Overexertion while materials moving by hand
code_source: title: Buckets, baskets, pails
code_nature: title: Disc disorders, herniated disc
code_body: title: Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the neck
severity: moderate