Incident date: 2015-08-14
NAICS industry code: 492110

An employee was transferring packages from a pallet to a trailer using a pallet jack. While loading the packages, he stated he "felt something wrong."  He required surgery for a hernia.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Overexertion in lifting-multiple episodes
code_source: title: Packages, parcels
code_nature: title: Hernias due to traumatic incidents
code_body: title: Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate