Incident date: 2025-01-28
NAICS industry code: 336411

An employee was using a small cup to move glass bead media from a container on the floor to the blasting equipment when their back locked up. The employee sustained a herniated disc and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Twisting, reaching, bending
code_source: title: Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
code_nature: title: Disc disorders, herniated disc
code_body: title: Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
severity: moderate