Incident date: 2019-05-09
NAICS industry code: 562998

An employee was performing internal maintenance on a waste sorting machine and sustained a back injury while attempting to crawl out of the tight space.

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