Incident date: 2015-10-15
NAICS industry code: 332111

An employee was using a manual crimping tool to bend scrap coils. While using an upward pulling motion to crimp the clip, he felt pain in his abdomen and suffered a right-side abdominal hernia.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Overexertion in pushing, pulling, or turning-single episode
code_source: title: Handtools-nonpowered, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Hernias due to traumatic incidents
code_body: title: Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate