Incident date: 2018-10-01
NAICS industry code: 484121

An employee stepped up into a truck to get his tool box, which weighed 40-50 pounds. While pulling on the box to get it out of the truck, he felt pain in his back and down his right leg, so severe that it caused him to fall back out of the truck onto the ground.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Overexertion in pushing, pulling, or turning-single episode
code_source: title: Boxes, crates, cartons
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate