Incident date: 2016-02-15
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was lifting a 50 lb. pipe fitting elbow with another employee and suffered an abdominal hernia rupture on his right side.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Overexertion in lifting-single episode
code_source: title: Pipes, ducts, tubing, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Hernias due to traumatic incidents
code_body: title: Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate