Incident date: 2018-11-28
NAICS industry code: 491110

After delivering mail, a letter carrier returned to the post office and was lifting 10- to 15-pound tubs and pulling trays. His lower back seized up and he was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Multiple types of overexertion involving outside sources
code_source: title: Buckets, baskets, pails
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate