# Hernias due to traumatic incidents at Maines Paper & Food Service - Chicago, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019011046` · 1/29/2019 · SOUTH JACKSONVILLE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Hernias due to traumatic incidents
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Ice, sleet, snow
## Employer
- **Name:** Maines Paper & Food Service - Chicago, Inc.
- **Location:** Love's Travel Stops, SOUTH JACKSONVILLE, ILLINOIS, 62650
- **NAICS:** 424490
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On January 30, 2019, at approximately 4:27 PM, an employee was exiting his tractor-trailer at the truck stop, slipped on an icy L bracket on the truck and fell. He proceeded to disconnect the trailer. While cranking down on the legs of the trailer, which were frozen because of the temperature, he felt pressure and heard a pop. The employee was hospitalized for a hernia.

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