Incident date: 2016-04-08
NAICS industry code: 484220

An employee climbed up a ladder to enter a trailer and fix flaps on the trailer belt that were laying the wrong direction. When he climbed over the side of the trailer and turned his body, he aggravated a previous hernia and required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Bending, crawling, reaching, twisting-single episode
code_source: title: Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
code_nature: title: Hernias due to traumatic incidents
code_body: title: Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate