Incident date: 2017-05-08
NAICS industry code: 621910

An employee was helping a coworker and a nurse move a quadriplegic patient from a bed using the bed sheet when the patient fell on the employee. The employee suffered a herniated back disc and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by physical contact with person while moving that person-unintentional
code_source: title: Patient
code_nature: title: Herniated discs
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate