Incident date: 2020-06-16
NAICS industry code: 322219

An employee was lifting a box that weighed no more than 25 pounds and experienced pain in the abdomen. The employee sustained a hernia requiring hospitalization and surgery.

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