Incident date: 2019-05-07
NAICS industry code: 423510

An employee was tossing old light fixtures into a scrap bin when he felt pain in his lower left quadrant. He was admitted to the hospital for surgery to repair a hernia.

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