# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Simplex Industries, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017065502` · 6/15/2017 · SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Simplex Industries, Inc.
- **Location:** 1 Simplex Drive, SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA, 18504
- **NAICS:** 321992
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on a scaffold plank along the side of a modular home when the employee fell nearly 7 feet to the ground, suffering a back injury and requiring hospitalization.

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