# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Kitchen Pride Mushroom Farms
> OSHA SIR `2018054276` · 5/2/2018 · GONZALES, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
## Employer
- **Name:** Kitchen Pride Mushroom Farms
- **Location:** 1034 CR 348, GONZALES, TEXAS, 78629
- **NAICS:** 111411
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on a 4-foot step ladder scraping the side of a tank to prepare for painting when he fell off the ladder to the ground, injuring his ribs and back.

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