# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Gillespie Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2021043062` · 4/12/2021 · WARE, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e)
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Elevators
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Gillespie Corporation
- **Location:** 34 Pine Street, WARE, MASSACHUSETTS, 01082
- **NAICS:** 333921
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working in an elevator that was being built. While stepping from the floor of the elevator (which was raised 4 feet off the floor on sawhorses) to an 8-foot fiberglass ladder, he missed his rung and fell backwards, landing on his shoulder on the floor. He suffered a shoulder injury.

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