Incident date: 2018-10-18
NAICS industry code: 326199

On 10/18/2018, at 8:25 AM, an employee experienced back pain while bending over to pick up material from floor level. He had been purging material from an extruder onto poly sheeting placed on the floor. The back pain caused him to sit on the floor, and he was unable to stand up on his own. He was hospitalized with lower disc inflammation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Bending, crawling, reaching, twisting-single episode
code_source: title: Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries to muscles, tendons, ligaments, joints, etc., unspecified
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate