Incident date: 2025-07-28
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee developed lower back pain after climbing up fixed ladders to reach a roof, then beginning to route wire into an air handling unit. When the employee knelt to pick up rope, the back pain became severe. The employee was hospitalized, having suffered a sprain to a back muscle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Multiple types of bodily position and motion
code_source: title: Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
code_nature: title: Sprains, strains, minor tears
code_body: title: Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
severity: moderate