Incident date: 2016-06-02
NAICS industry code: 332812

An employee was replacing a bearing on a shaft and was using a sledge hammer to seat the bearing when he suffered pain in his lower back. He was hospitalized with a broken blood vessel in the lumbar back area.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Overexertion in holding, carrying, or wielding-single episode
code_source: title: Sledges, sledgehammers
code_nature: title: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate