Incident date: 2016-09-14
NAICS industry code: 623312

An employee was finishing her morning medication administration cycle when she was called into an apartment by another worker to help move a resident from her bed to a wheelchair. The resident began to lose her balance, so the employee tried to help her to the ground, suffering acute severe lower back pain with disc protrusion in the process.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Overexertion in lowering-single episode
code_source: title: Patient
code_nature: title: Herniated discs
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate