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OSHA Injury Report: Buncombe County-Emergency Services

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at Buncombe County-Emergency Services in Asheville, NC 28801 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was eMT Paramedic in emergency medical transportation services, air or ground.

Establishment
Buncombe County-Emergency Services
Parent company
County of Buncombe
Street
200 College Street, 1st Floor
City
Asheville
State
NC
ZIP
28801
On-site location
Culvern Street Asheville NC 28804
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
6

Moving a stretcher from a residence to the ambulance.

While moving the stretcher up on a curb at a sidewalk employee felt pain in lower back. Later in the shift employee had a call with an obese patient and injured it worse.

Lower back pain

Lifting

Lower back pain while lifting patients

Job description
EMT Paramedic
SOC code
29-2043 — Paramedics
NAICS code
621910 — Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
215
Total hours worked
503548
EIN
566000279
Establishment ID
997134
Employer case #
64
Date of incident
Shift started
7:30:00.000
Time of incident
11:30:00.000
Submitted
12FEB24:15:53:00

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