Incident date: 2019-01-29
NAICS industry code: 311919

An employee was moving a converter dolly for a tandem trailer. While pushing the converter dolly, the employee felt a pop in his lower back, followed by severe pain. He was hospitalized with two bulging discs and a fractured vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Overexertion in pushing, pulling, or turning-single episode
code_source: title: Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
code_nature: title: Fractures and dislocations
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate