Incident date: 2023-09-21
NAICS industry code: 621910

An employee was providing medical treatment to injured persons involved in a motor vehicle accident. The employee was walking up and down a low-grade embankment carrying injured persons on transport equipment such as backboards. The employee sustained chest pain, and a possible cardiac related event with an elevated heart rate and elevated blood pressure.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Multiple types of overexertion involving outside sources
code_source: title: Stretchers, backboards, wheeled cots, stair chairs
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate