# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Dean Hushon Insulation, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2019021600` · 2/12/2019 · SMETHPORT, PENNSYLVANIA
## 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:** Ladders-fixed
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Dean Hushon Insulation, LLC
- **Location:** 45 Route 446, SMETHPORT, PENNSYLVANIA, 16749
- **NAICS:** 238310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing a straight ladder that was secured to a boiler.  On the third or fourth step of the ladder, the employee's foot slipped causing him to fall backwards and hit a fire extinguisher that was on the wall before falling to the concrete ground. The employee was hospitalized due to an injury to his twelfth vertebrae.

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