Incident date: 2018-05-30
NAICS industry code: 423820

An employee was making a feed mill delivery at a customer location and squeezed his body into a gap between the semi-trailer and the loading dock before climbing into the back of the semi-trailer. Afterwards, the employee began experiencing upper body pain. The employee was hospitalized for a hernia.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched between two stationary objects
code_source: title: Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
code_nature: title: Hernias due to traumatic incidents
code_body: title: Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate