# Hernias due to traumatic incidents at Universal Pressure Pumping
> OSHA SIR `2020021725` · 2/21/2020 · MIDLAND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Hernias due to traumatic incidents
## Cause
- **Event:** Bending, crawling, reaching, twisting-single episode
- **Source:** Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
## Employer
- **Name:** Universal Pressure Pumping
- **Location:** 4517 W. Industrial Ave., MIDLAND, TEXAS, 79703
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was bending down to pick up a hose to connect to a pump to pressurize it when he felt pain. He was hospitalized and required surgery for a hernia.

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