# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at EMCOR Services - Fluidics
> OSHA SIR `2019099979` · 9/24/2019 · PHILADELPHIA, 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 less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** EMCOR Services - Fluidics
- **Location:** 9601 Germantown Avenue, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, 19118
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping another employee troubleshoot a ceiling-mounted VAV box on a 6-foot step ladder. He was shocked and fell about 3 feet to the floor, suffering back injuries. He was hospitalized.

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