Incident date: 2022-01-18
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was lifting traffic control devices and loading them into the bucket of a skid steer when he suffered a hernia. The employee was hospitalized for surgery.

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