# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at The Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company
> OSHA SIR `2022054110` · 5/11/2022 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
- **Secondary source:** Caps, lids, covers, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** The Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company
- **Location:** 2146 Leamington Ave., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60639
- **NAICS:** 221210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking at a jobsite and stepped on a yellow composite sidewalk cover. The cover became dislodged and he fell into an excavation that was 46 inches deep. The employee sustained injury to their left knee and lower back.

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