# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at VERIZON, NY, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20191010918` · 10/18/2019 · NORTHPORT, NEW YORK
## 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 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Utility and telephone poles
- **Secondary source:** Shrubs, grasses
## Employer
- **Name:** VERIZON, NY, Inc.
- **Location:** 44 Grove St., NORTHPORT, NEW YORK, 11768
- **NAICS:** 517110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing a backyard utility pole. The employee was climbing the pole with foot spikes when the employee fell approximately 12 feet onto bushes and grass. The employee suffered a back injury with possible compressed vertebrae.

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