Overexertion in lifting-multiple episodes · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Technical Machining Services, Inc., 1201 N 8th St, ROGERS, ARKANSAS 72756
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders.
Final narrative
An employee was lifting steel bar stocks 12 feet long and weighing approximately 20lbs to place into a CNC mill machine when he felt a pull across his stomach. The employee was later admitted to the hospital for pain in the stomach.
HospitalizedAbdomen, except internal location of diseases or disordersBars, rods, reinforcing bar (rebar)
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