# Herniated discs at Weifield Group Contracting, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2016098944` · 9/21/2016 · DENVER, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Herniated discs
## Cause
- **Event:** Bending, crawling, reaching, twisting-single episode
- **Source:** Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
## Employer
- **Name:** Weifield Group Contracting, LLC
- **Location:** 1700 Wewatta Street, DENVER, COLORADO, 80202
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was bending over to pick up a 10-foot stick of 3/4" electrical metallic tube (EMT) when he felt and heard a pop in his back and experienced a sharp lower back pain. He was hospitalized with a compressed back disc.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*