Incident date: 2025-02-04
NAICS industry code: 711219

On February 4, 2025, an employee was emptying a half-full wet vacuum machine when they rotated with the machine and sustained two bulging discs in their back. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Overexertion while wielding, manipulating tools, object(s)
code_source: title: Industrial vacuums
code_nature: title: Disc disorders, herniated disc
code_body: title: Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
severity: moderate