Incident date: 2023-12-04
NAICS industry code: 621910

An employee was transporting a patient to their residence. The employee bent down to grab a stretcher and felt a pop in their back. The employee sustained a herniation of their L4-L5 disc.

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: Herniated discs
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate