The doctor asked around and was told, as Palmer later recalled, that the man "was exerting himself in a cramped, stooping position, [when] he felt something give way in his back and immediately became deaf."
這名工人對帕爾曼表示，有一天他蹲下去搬東西，起身後覺得自己的背好像被卡住，就再也聽不見了。