Incident date: 2015-01-22
NAICS industry code: 332618

On January 22, 2015, an employee operating a rough terrain forklift on frozen ground felt a "pop" in his back. The employee reported the incident to management the following day, went to an emergency room on two occasions, visited a doctor, and had an MRI before being diagnosed with a spinal epidural hematoma and admitted into Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania, on January 28, 2015.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck bump, hole, rough terrain on driving surface, nonroadway
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate