Incident date: 2018-05-08
NAICS industry code: 484220

On May 8, 2018, an employee was pushing a pallet of water back onto his trailer with a pallet jack at a customer location when he felt pain and a bulge in his abdomen area due to a ruptured hernia.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Overexertion in pushing, pulling, or turning-single episode
code_source: title: Pallet jack-nonpowered
code_nature: title: Hernias due to traumatic incidents
code_body: title: Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate