Incident date: 2016-10-17
NAICS industry code: 491110

On Monday, October 17, 2016, an employee was at her carrier case on the workroom floor and bent down to pick up a mail tub to load into a hamper. When she lifted the tub, she felt a pop in her back and experienced a lot of pain. She was hospitalized with a back injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Overexertion in lifting-single episode
code_source: title: Containers-nonpressurized, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate