# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at CCA MIDWEST, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2021097940` · 9/15/2021 · HOMER GLEN, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
- **Secondary source:** Valves, nozzles
## Employer
- **Name:** CCA MIDWEST, INC.
- **Location:** 14014 South Sheridan Trail, HOMER GLEN, ILLINOIS, 60491
- **NAICS:** 238350
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On September 15, 2021, at approximately 8:15 a.m. an employee was driving an aerial lift when the bottom of the front basket caught the edge of a B-Box water flow control valve. The employee continued to raise the aerial lift until the B-Box valve broke and the employee was ejected out of the aerial lift basket onto the front edge of the home's concrete slab. The employee fell 6 feet and was hospitalized for a severe neck injury.

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