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Accident: 170843684 - Employee Injured Lower Back While Operating Printing Press

Accident: 170843684 -- Report ID: 0950615 -- Event Date: 03/02/2004
InspectionOpen DateSICEstablishment Name
11963541503/12/20042752Renaissance Mark
At approximately 1:30 p.m. on March 2, 2004, an employee was placing an empty wood skid under a printing press to receive finished label pages when he re-injured his back, resulting in increasing levels of pain through the end of his work-shift. The employee then filled out incident report and went home and rested and iced his back. Original injury to his back occurred 20 years previously and had resulted in about 1 week of lost time per year due to back pain. The employee went to local work-care clinic, was examined and x-rayed then was sent home. The employee collapsed and could not get up due to spasms and extreme pain. The emergency medical services were called and the employee was transported to hospital and admitted for 1 week. The employee had a protrusion of disc between L4 and L5 vertebrae.
Keywords: printing press, back, vertebra
Employee # Inspection Age Sex Degree Nature Occupation
1 119635415 Hospitalized injury Strain/Sprain Pressing machine operators

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