Incident date: 2018-04-09
NAICS industry code: 721110

An employee was kneeling down next to an ice machine to unclog the drain. When the employee rotated his upper body to reach the drain, he felt a sharp pain in his lower right back. He was then unable to move. He was hospitalized with a back injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Bending, crawling, reaching, twisting-single episode
code_source: title: Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate