Overexertion in lifting-single episode · Hernias due to traumatic incidents
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at ACME TRUCK LINE INC, 200 WESTBANK EXPRESSWAY, GRETNA, LOUISIANA 70053
on — Hernias due to traumatic incidents, affecting the abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders.
Final narrative
An employee developed an inguinal hernia while lifting a set of hoses.
HospitalizedAbdomen, except internal location of diseases or disordersHoses
An employee was on a semi-truck trailer, adjusting straps to prepare the load for transit. The employee tripped on the straps and fell approximately 5 feet to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to their spine, arm, and hip, and they required surgery.
A commercial truck driver was standing near a truck that a forklift was loading. An aluminum rail fell on the employee's left foot and fractured it. The employee was transported to the hospital for surgery. Two toes were later amputated.
An employee unstrapped a load of machinery on a truck. The machinery had shifted in transit; it fell off the truck and struck the employee, who suffered a chest laceration and a contusion to the left hand and was hospitalized.
An employee was re-securing a load on the back of a trailer. He fell off the trailer to the concrete 5 feet below, suffering a concussion and abrasions.
On 12/22/2023, an employee was carrying bins filled with pasta to a refrigerator. As he lifted a 20-pound bin, he felt pain in his lower back. The employee sustained a herniated disc.
An employee was lifting a patient when they pulled a back muscle. She suffered back pain and spasms radiating into her leg with weakness and numbness. The employee's L3-L4 disc was herniated and she was hospitalized.
An employee was lifting a bundle of insulation with a colleague when he felt severe pain in the right side of his lower back/hip region. The employee sustained a severe muscle injury.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 484121)
An employee fell while exiting a trailer. The employee landed on their left side on the pavement, suffering multiple broken ribs on the left side. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was hooking up a set of 28-foot trailers, attaching a converter dolly to the lead trailer's pintle hook. He backed up the lead trailer and parked it a foot from the converter dolly, then lifted the converter dolly and rolled it to the lead trailer to set it onto the hook. The converter dolly kicked up, and the employee's left hand was caught between it and the trailer. He suffered a severe laceration to the palm between the ring finger and middle finger.
An employee was cleaning the windshield of his truck. When he stepped down from the truck, he lost balance and reached to catch himself using the side mirror. The impact fractured his left wrist. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.
An employee was standing on the DOT bumper on the back of a standard 53-foot trailer. The employee lost his footing and his grip on the handle bar, and fell approximately 42 inches to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left hip/femur.
A driver was making a delivery. As he was climbing onto his trailer to get boxes, the strap he was using to pull himself up broke. He fell from the back of the trailer to the ground, landing on his right leg and breaking his femur.
A driver was exiting his vehicle outside the plant gate when his foot slipped on the top step of the truck. He fell to the ground, landed on his left hip and elbow. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip/femur.
A security employee was responding to an urgent call from staff regarding a violent patient. The employee tripped and fell on the floor outside of the stairwell. The employee sustained a closed head injury, contusion of the cerebrum without loss of consciousness, and a closed fracture of the distal end of the right radius.
A temporary employee was testing an electrical starter motor. He was placing tape on the starter while the breaker was not engaged, but the starter sent an arc flash that burned his hands and stomach.
An employee was walking on a sidewalk and stubbed his toe on an elevated portion of concrete, causing him to trip and fall. The employee's right knee was dislocated.