Incident date: 2015-01-24
NAICS industry code: 491110

On 1/24/2015, an employee was lifting a tray of mail to load a truck and felt pain in the stomach.  Employee went home ill at about 9:30 a.m.  Later that day, the employee went to Kaiser Hospital in Roseville, California, and was admitted.  The employee had surgery for a double hernia on 1/25/2015.

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