Incident date: 2017-08-21
NAICS industry code: 445110

An employee was operating a 40-quart dough mixer. When the mixing was complete, the employee picked up the steel mixing bowl with the dough in it, which weighed approximately 40 pounds. The employee then suffered an incarcerated hernia, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Overexertion in lifting-single episode
code_source: title: Dishes, bowls
code_nature: title: Hernias due to traumatic incidents
code_body: title: Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate