# Numbness-nonspecified injury at VCA Firehouse Animal Hospital
> OSHA SIR `2019077848` · 7/31/2019 · DENVER, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Numbness-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Overexertion in lifting-single episode
- **Source:** Animals, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** VCA Firehouse Animal Hospital
- **Location:** 1038 E. 6th Ave Unit B, DENVER, COLORADO, 80218
- **NAICS:** 541940
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees lifted a large animal. Later, one of them began feeling numbness and tingling in the legs and feet. She was hospitalized, having suffered a back injury.

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