Incident date: 2016-02-12
NAICS industry code: 622110

While washing a patient with an aide, an employee, who was holding the patient on the left side, felt a sharp burning pain across the lower back. The employee's legs became numb, and the employee fell to the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a lower back musculoskeletal injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Overexertion in holding, carrying, or wielding-single episode
code_source: title: Patient
code_nature: title: Strains
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate