# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Sargent Electric Company
> OSHA SIR `2021065062` · 6/21/2021 · DUQUESNE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head, neck, and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Electric parts, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Sargent Electric Company
- **Location:** 300 Kennedy Avenue, DUQUESNE, PENNSYLVANIA, 15110
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing a 277-volt light fixture while on a 6-foot, A-frame ladder when the employee contacted a phase of the conductor and was shocked, causing him to fall backward off the ladder to the ground below. The employee suffered trauma to their head, neck, and chest.

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