OSHA Injury Report: Aspirus St. Lukes Hospital

At a glance

Where did this happen?

What was the outcome?

Before the incident

Severe intermittent back pain with lifting patients for reposition noted including pain with sitting standing bending. Moderate back pain while sitting or standing. No clear exact incident on this day but pain unbearable during patient reposition activity around [REDACTED] to lower back. History of injury pain to lower back while transferring patient reported [REDACTED] at [REDACTED] as well

What happened

Unclear mechanism of injury. Pain simply became severe during load bear of patient to transfer repositioning taps system and throughout shift to sit stand or bends

Injury or illness

Lower back pain X-ray lumbar spine sacral 2-3 view (anterolisthesis L4 on L5 L4 pars defect

Object or substance involved

Patient transfer

Summary line

lifting and transferring patient resulting in days away from work due to back injury and diagnosis of anterlisthesis L4 L5

Employee and industry

When (timing detail)

Source

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2025. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.