# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Estate Landscaping & Lawn Management
> OSHA SIR `20181111921` · 11/19/2018 · FORT MYERS, FLORIDA
## 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, unspecified
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Ground, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Estate Landscaping & Lawn Management
- **Location:** Botanica Lakes, FORT MYERS, FLORIDA, 33913
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trimming bushes from a ladder when he lost his balance and fell off the ladder and onto a fence and the ground. He suffered a back injury and was hospitalized.

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