Incident date: 2018-07-30
NAICS industry code: 311999

An employee was cutting open 50 lbs. bags of solids and emptying them into a screener with the use of a lift table and vacuum lift. The employee was hospitalized that evening for surgery to correct a hernia.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Overexertion in lifting-multiple episodes
code_source: title: Bags, sacks
code_nature: title: Hernias due to traumatic incidents
code_body: title: Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate