# Hernias due to traumatic incidents at DFW Movers & Erectors, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2022065421` · 6/21/2022 · KATY, TEXAS
## 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:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** DFW Movers & Erectors, Inc
- **Location:** 777 Igloo Rd, KATY, TEXAS, 77494
- **NAICS:** 484220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were relocating a blow molding machine at a client site. The machine tipped over and pinned an employee, causing a hernia and a laceration on the right side of their abdomen.

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