Incident date: 2015-11-03
NAICS industry code: 311511

The employee was washing a stripper filler machine with a 4 to 5 inch diameter flexible hose that hung down from the ceiling. The employee noted a sharp pain in the back during the cleaning operation and heard a pop when the employee bent over to pick up the tool.

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: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate