# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
> OSHA SIR `2020065727` · 6/19/2020 · MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Trailers
## Employer
- **Name:** Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
- **Location:** 403 N. Cherokee Street, MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA, 74403
- **NAICS:** 517110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working off an A-frame ladder when he lost his balance and fell approximately 5 feet onto a customer's trailer hitch that was directly under him. He struck his abdomen and right arm, requiring hospitalization.

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