Incident date: 2020-01-22
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was in the elevated platform of a scissor lift pulling a telecommunications cable. He reached out and handed the cable to an employee in an adjacent scissor lift and heard a pop. The employee suffered an abdominal hernia that needed surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Bending, crawling, reaching, twisting-single episode
code_source: title: Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
code_nature: title: Hernias due to traumatic incidents
code_body: title: Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate