Incident date: 2019-04-19
NAICS industry code: 213112

On April 19, 2019, at approximately 9:00 a.m., an employee was breaking down pipe with a sledge hammer when he threw out his back and experienced lower back pain. He was hospitalized with a herniated disk at the L4 and L5 vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Overexertion in holding, carrying, or wielding-single episode
code_source: title: Sledges, sledgehammers
code_nature: title: Herniated discs
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate