# Hernias due to traumatic incidents at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
> OSHA SIR `2019077422` · 7/20/2019 · NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **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.

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