# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Dallas Waste Disposal and Recycling, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016087114` · 8/2/2016 · DALLAS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Banding, baling, strapping machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Dallas Waste Disposal and Recycling, Inc.
- **Location:** 3303 Pluto Street, DALLAS, TEXAS, 75212
- **NAICS:** 562211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was conducting maintenance on a baler when the baler's plunger struck his back. He was hospitalized.

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