# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Waterson Terminal Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20221210985` · 12/19/2022 · PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Containers-variable restraint, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** Waterson Terminal Services, LLC
- **Location:** 35 Terminal Road, PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, 02905
- **NAICS:** 488320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing a tarp from a 20-foot pile of road salt. He fell approximately 10 feet down the face of the salt pile and sustained a lower back injury at the bottom of the pile.

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