# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at A-lert Construction Services
> OSHA SIR `2019010408` · 1/14/2019 · DECATUR, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck and back
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Stairs, steps-indoors
- **Secondary source:** Grates
## Employer
- **Name:** A-lert Construction Services
- **Location:** 1400 Market St NE, DECATUR, ALABAMA, 35601
- **NAICS:** 238290
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee ascended a flight of seven metal stairs to check supplies. He was going back downstairs with  and was making a turn on the landing when his boot became caught in the galvanized serrated metal grating, causing him to slip and fall to the metal steps, injuring his neck and back. He was hospitalized.

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