# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at WHOLE FOODS MARKET GROUP, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2019010369` · 1/11/2019 · CLEVELAND, OHIO
## 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:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** WHOLE FOODS MARKET GROUP, INC.
- **Location:** 13998 Cedar, CLEVELAND, OHIO, 44118
- **NAICS:** 424410
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using an 8-foot A-frame ladder to pull stock from the shelves in the back room. The employee fell from the ladder from an unknown height and hit the floor, lacerating her hand and injuring her back. She was hospitalized.

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