Incident date: 2019-02-19
NAICS industry code: 331420

At 1:37 p.m. on February 19, 2019, a temporary employee was taking an empty 280-pound steel wire reel off a machine when he suddenly felt pain in his neck and back and fell to the floor. He was hospitalized, having suffered sprains/strains of ligaments of the cervical spine and a contusion of the left shoulder.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Overexertion in pushing, pulling, or turning-single episode
code_source: title: Reels, rolls, spools, coils, cones
code_nature: title: Multiple sprains, strains, tears
code_body: title: Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate