Incident date: 2018-06-20
NAICS industry code: 621610

An employee was assisting a client who was laying in bed. He bent over the bed to cover the client with blankets when he felt a sharp pain and pull in his lower back area, then fell onto his knees on the floor. He was unable to get up and required hospitalization.

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: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate