Hernias due to traumatic incidents

Name: Hernias due to traumatic incidents at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Start: 7/20/2019

1 hospitalization · 2019077422 · 7/20/2019 · Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
Nature of injury: Hernias due to traumatic incidents

Cause

Event: Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
Source: Wood, lumber, unspecified

Employer

Name: Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Location: 4101 Washington Avenue, NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA, 23607
NAICS: 541513
Jurisdiction: 0

Narrative

An employee was serving as a spotter for the adjustment of staging when several of the staging planks became dislodged and fell to the ground. One of the planks bounced far enough to strike the employee in the back. The employee was hospitalized with an umbilical hernia and had surgery.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown