Incident date: 2019-10-21
NAICS industry code: 423310

An employee was hand loading 8-inch x 18-inch cement cinder blocks from a store's lumber yard onto a customer's vehicle. The employee wrenched his back and was hospitalized for a possible pinched nerve, slipped disc, or spinal injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Overexertion involving outside sources, unspecified
code_source: title: Concrete blocks, cinder blocks
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate