# Disc disorders, herniated disc at BJC Memorial Hospital
> OSHA SIR `2025043247` · 4/8/2025 · BELLEVILLE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the neck
- **Nature of injury:** Disc disorders, herniated disc
## Cause
- **Event:** Overexertion while materials moving by hand
- **Source:** Buckets, baskets, pails
- **Secondary source:** Ice blocks, cubes, crushed
## Employer
- **Name:** BJC Memorial Hospital
- **Location:** 4500 Memorial Drive, BELLEVILLE, ILLINOIS, 62226
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A kitchen employee was completing food preparation for lunch. She experienced increasing pain in her neck as she bent down to fill a bucket of ice, brought it over to the cold station, and lifted the bucket of ice to fill the cold station. The employee was hospitalized the following day with a bulging cervical disc.

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