# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at U-HAUL COMPANY
> OSHA SIR `2017054451` · 5/16/2017 · DENVER, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
- **Source:** Highway vehicle, motorized, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** U-HAUL COMPANY
- **Location:** 7540 YORK ST., DENVER, COLORADO, 80229
- **NAICS:** 484210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

As an employee was preparing to hook up a trailer to a customer's vehicle, the customer hit the gas instead of the brake, colliding with the employee. The employee was hospitalized with back and rib injuries.

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