# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Burlingtons Store, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20191212695` · 12/10/2019 · MCALLEN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall through surface or existing opening, unspecified
- **Source:** Elevators
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Burlingtons Store, Inc.
- **Location:** 500 East Expressway 83, MCALLEN, TEXAS, 78503
- **NAICS:** 448140
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was dropping boxes into an elevator shaft when the employee fell down the shaft and hit the shaft floor, suffering a back injury.

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