SLIDELL, LOUISIANA—
Swift Transportation Co. Inc.
Multiple types of overexertions and bodily reactions · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
Final narrative
An employee was picking up a box from the floor of the trailer when he saw another box falling toward him and stepped back to avoid it. The employee felt a pop in the lower back and a sharp pain.
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