# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Momentum Builders, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023043311` · 4/13/2023 · MERCER, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall from collapsing structure or equipment 21 to 25 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Momentum Builders, Inc.
- **Location:** 8416 Sharon Mercer Rd, MERCER, PENNSYLVANIA, 16137
- **NAICS:** 238160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A crew was using a seamer to install roof panels on a new building. As the employee was placing the seamer on a platform at the edge of the roof, the employee stepped onto the platform. The platform and the employee then fell approximately 23 feet to the ground. The employee sustained a lower back injury.

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