Incident date: 2019-11-04
NAICS industry code: 337110

An employee was loading, pushing, and pulling a cart with wooden doors that weighed approximately 20 pounds when he suffered an abdominal hernia, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

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