# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Frank Novak & Sons, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022032312` · 3/14/2022 · ELYRIA, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway
- **Source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
- **Secondary source:** Existing floor opening
## Employer
- **Name:** Frank Novak & Sons, Inc.
- **Location:** Advanced Technologies Building, ELYRIA, OHIO, 44035
- **NAICS:** 238330
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was painting a ceiling from a scissor lift platform extended to about 7 feet. As the lift was being backed up, one of its tires dropped into an open section in the floor, and it fell over. The employee's right hip was injured where it struck against the lift's top rail.

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