Incident date: 2015-07-27
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was working on a blast furnace, checking rigging that was used to install the large valve linkage. The employee bent down and started having lower back spasms, requiring hospitalization.

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: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate