Incident date: 2024-08-21
NAICS industry code: 531311

An employee was using a 71.3-pound jackhammer to break up a concrete pad. The jackhammer became stuck in the concrete. The employee tried to pull the jackhammer out of the concrete and sustained a hernia requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Overexertion while wielding, manipulating tools, object(s)
code_source: title: Jackhammers
code_nature: title: Hernias
code_body: title: Abdomen  unspecified
severity: moderate