# Multiple sprains, strains, tears at YALE-NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL
> OSHA SIR `2022032574` · 3/22/2022 · NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple back regions
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple sprains, strains, tears
## Cause
- **Event:** Overexertion in lifting-single episode
- **Source:** Patient
## Employer
- **Name:** YALE-NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL
- **Location:** 20 YORK STREET, NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, 06504
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was assisting a patient back into bed for the night by lifting the patient's legs from the floor to the bed when she experienced discomfort in her back due to a lower-to mid back strain and sprain.

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