Overexertion and bodily reaction, unspecified · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Carr & Sons Masonry, Inc., 6499 N Falkenberg Rd, TAMPA, FLORIDA 33619
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the lumbar region.
Final narrative
An employee was stripping wood from a concrete frame and suffered a lower back injury.
HospitalizedLumbar regionBodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
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