# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20161211369` · 12/6/2016 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Ran off driving surface, nonroadway
- **Source:** Street sweeping and cleaning machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc.
- **Location:** 2755 Aldine Bender, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77032
- **NAICS:** 484230
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to empty a sweeper into an open-top dumpster sitting on the dock apron below him. Suddenly, the dumpster began to move and the employee and the sweeper fell off the dock. He injured his lower back and was hospitalized.

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