# Hernias due to traumatic incidents at Extreme Concrete services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019032930` · 3/20/2019 · EDGEWATER, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Hernias due to traumatic incidents
## Cause
- **Event:** Multiple types of overexertion involving outside sources
- **Source:** Shovels
- **Secondary source:** Cement, mortar mix-wet
## Employer
- **Name:** Extreme Concrete services, Inc.
- **Location:** 320 Base Leg Drive, EDGEWATER, FLORIDA, 32132
- **NAICS:** 238110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was shoveling left-over wet concrete from under a machine that made concrete blocks. He felt a sharp pain in his lower abdomen and was hospitalized, requiring hernia surgery.

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