Incident date: 2016-09-21
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was bending over to pick up a 10-foot stick of 3/4" electrical metallic tube (EMT) when he felt and heard a pop in his back and experienced a sharp lower back pain. He was hospitalized with a compressed back disc.

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: Herniated discs
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate