Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Name: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Republic Services
Start: 5/9/2019

1 hospitalization · 2019054732 · 5/9/2019 · Republic Services

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
Nature of injury: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Cause

Event: Bending, crawling, reaching, twisting-single episode
Source: Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker

Employer

Name: Republic Services
Location: 5860 45 St #258, WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA, 33407
NAICS: 562998
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was performing internal maintenance on a waste sorting machine and sustained a back injury while attempting to crawl out of the tight space.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown