Incident date: 2018-05-07
NAICS industry code: 621610

An employee was lifting a client's folded wheelchair into the back of a vehicle when she felt a sharp pain in her lower left back, then felt the pain radiate down her left leg. She suffered a possible muscle strain or pinched nerve.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Overexertion in lifting-single episode
code_source: title: Wheelchairs and other mobility devices, unspecified
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate