# Hernias due to traumatic incidents at Giles and Ransome, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015031293` · 3/18/2015 · BENSALEM, PENNSYLVANIA
## 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:** Giles and Ransome, Inc.
- **Location:** 2975 Galloway Road, BENSALEM, PENNSYLVANIA, 19020
- **NAICS:** 811310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was leaning on an engine to reinstall a radiator when the employee sustained a hernia.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*