Incident date: 2017-04-11
NAICS industry code: 484121

An employee was pulling freight at the customer location with his pallet jack when he began to feel intense pain in his lower back, which caused the employee to briefly lose consciousness. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Overexertion in pushing, pulling, or turning-single episode
code_source: title: Pallet jack-nonpowered
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate