# Strains at Pottstown Memorial Medical Center
> OSHA SIR `2016021545` · 2/21/2016 · POTTSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Strains
## Cause
- **Event:** Bending, crawling, reaching, twisting-single episode
- **Source:** Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
## Employer
- **Name:** Pottstown Memorial Medical Center
- **Location:** 1600 E. High St., POTTSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, 19464
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving a sterile processing tray, which contained surgery instruments and weighed approximately 28 pounds, when the tray started to tip. While trying to prevent the tray from tipping, the employee suffered a back strain and required hospitalization.

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