# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Ice Cream Specialties, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016032698` · 3/30/2016 · SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thoracic region
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** Ice Cream Specialties, Inc.
- **Location:** 8419 Hanley Industrial Dr., SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI, 63144
- **NAICS:** 311520
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was releasing a pallet that had become jammed on the infeed.  He lost his balance and fell approximately four feet between the infeed and the outfeed onto a metal support injuring his back.

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