Incident date: 2019-09-24
NAICS industry code: 622110

A nurse was helping a patient (who was sitting on a 3-foot-high-stretcher) sit up and get off the stretcher. She was pulling up on the patient when she felt a pop in her lower back. She was hospitalized, with back pain radiating to her right leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Overexertion in pushing, pulling, or turning-single episode
code_source: title: Patient
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate