Asheville, NC —
OSHA Injury Report: Buncombe County-Emergency Services
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
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.
Where did this happen?
- 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
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 6
Before the incident
Moving a stretcher from a residence to the ambulance.
What happened
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.
Injury or illness
Lower back pain
Object or substance involved
Lifting
Summary line
Lower back pain while lifting patients
Employee and industry
- 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
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 7:30:00.000
- Time of incident
- 11:30:00.000
- Submitted
- 12FEB24:15:53:00
Source
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.