# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at National Gypsum Company
> OSHA SIR `2016099278` · 9/30/2016 · GREEN COVE SPRINGS, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** National Gypsum Company
- **Location:** 1767 Wildwood Rd., GREEN COVE SPRINGS, FLORIDA, 32043
- **NAICS:** 327420
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was emptying trash from a trash hopper into a dumpster. As he was trying to clear cement debris inside the trash hopper (which was lifted up by a forklift), he lost his footing and fell about 6 feet from the dumpster to the concrete floor, injuring his head, clavicle, and ribs. He was hospitalized.

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