Incident date: 2022-08-22
NAICS industry code: 311613

An employee bent over to pick up a 35-pound container of oil. As he lifted it, he sustained two hernias. He was hospitalized and required surgery.

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