# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Chicgo Fire Escape Repair
> OSHA SIR `20171111218` · 11/22/2017 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall from collapsing structure or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Ladders-fixed
## Employer
- **Name:** Chicgo Fire Escape Repair
- **Location:** 1854 S. Blue Island, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60609
- **NAICS:** 333298
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was repairing a railing on a fire escape when the counterbalance came loose from the wall. The fire escape and employee then fell to the ground. He suffered back and leg injuries.

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