Incident date: 2015-11-12
NAICS industry code: 484121

An employee was hooking a trailer when he felt something pop in his back. He experienced numbness and paralysis from the chest down, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

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: Numbness-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate